HEADS UP package "fetchmail" vulnerable and 6.4.0 release candidate out

2019-08-20 Thread Matthias Andree
GnuPG signatures at <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/>. Thanks for your consideration. Regards, Matthias Andree - upstream fetchmail maintainer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE3EplW9mTzUhx+oIQ5BKxVu/zhVoFAl1cMpoACgkQ5BKxVu/z hVrMORAAtRXCpG6lTsZNdPuu5NDquyW

Re: bash: cygpath: command not found

2011-06-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 16.06.2011 04:03, schrieb jairo supelano: > Hi, i require to use cygpath, and this is supposed to come with standard > installation. i get this message, first i tried default installation, tough i > may have changed install defaults in the first try (i dont remember if i > changed > them in

Re: Editing protected files in Windows 7 (like the etc/hosts file)

2011-05-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 16.05.2011 11:09, schrieb Avishai Geller: > How do I edit my hosts file in cygwin on Windows 7? VI opens it in read-only > mode. I have administrator permissions, but Windows 7 has that UAC feature > which I think is preventing editing the file. Don't second-guess. http://www.chiark.greenend

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-31 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 31.03.2011 13:24, schrieb Jon TURNEY: > What the man page doesn't tell you is that bash actually unsets PS1 if the > shell isn't interactive, so for bash at least, exporting PS1 can't cause a > problem. bash isn't the only shell under the Sun. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/probl

Re: Cygwin 1.7 string pattern matching problem with case sensitivity

2011-03-17 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 17.03.2011 18:26, schrieb jean-benoit.ouel...@bell.ca: I changed my LANG from en_US.ISO-8859-1 to C.ISO-8859-1 and it resolved the problem. Thanks for your quick input. Possibly you can use LC_COLLATE and/or LC_CTYPE instead, if you're looking for narrower overrides. -- Matthias A

Re: [SOLVED] cygwin1.dll upgrade problem

2011-03-17 Thread Matthias Andree
itched back to older installations on a reboot. Be sure to carefully read the pop-up requesters and infobubbles from setup.exe. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: log2f() in 1.7.8

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, VĂ­ctor Paesa wrote: > Hi, > > In 1.7.7, log2f() is defined in math.h as > > extern float log2f _PARAMS((float)); > #if !defined(__cplusplus) > #define log2f(x) (logf (x) / (float) _M_LOG2_E) > #endif > > In 1.7.8, log2f() is defined in math.h as > > extern float log2f _PAR

setup.exe considerations (was: Doubtful about unison)

2011-03-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 01.03.2011 08:20, schrieb Andy Koppe: > On 28 February 2011 19:52, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Which is the problem: the unison command was compiled against a newer >> cygwin1.dll than yours. > > To be fair, setup.exe ought to be able to resolve or warn about such &

Re: Doubtful about unison

2011-02-28 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.02.2011 20:31, schrieb Olivier Lefevre: > Yes but no danger here: it dies right away with an error popup that > says "The program entry point [I am translating from the german; I > might be a little off] "__ctype_ptr__" was not found in cygwin1.dll" > > Looks like it was wrongly linked or c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: since 1.1-1 -- tail(1) work-alike that saves and uses state information

2011-02-17 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 17.02.2011 23:50, schrieb Jari Aalto: > > PACKAGE DESCRIPTION > === > > Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/since That would be http://welz.org.za/projects/since -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: bad PATH conversion under XP

2011-02-02 Thread Matthias Andree
lists like %Path%. This is not done when calling the > cygwin_conv_path_list function from the application. No offense intended, but is it useful to introduce such distinctions as to when/where/how the variable is fetched? It might cause hard-to-debug problems later on, don't you think? -- Matthias And

Re: 1.7.7: Bash interactive login takes very long (> 1 min)

2011-01-31 Thread Matthias Andree
and over again? Thank you. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 1.7.7: Bash interactive login takes very long (> 1 min)

2011-01-31 Thread Matthias Andree
privileged user or as normal user, that > doesn't matter), it takes always more than 60 seconds before the prompt > appears. How can I trace what the problem is? The first thing to do is to deinstall bash-completion and retry. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: htt

Re: More Weird Perl .dll Errors

2011-01-14 Thread Matthias Andree
MOP" in CPAN shell, same > error after the installation finishes. > > I tried rebooting and running perlrebase again, same error. Try rebaseall, or if you're under Vista or 7, peflagsall. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Matthias Andree
uch about functionality, hence, obsolete (whether it's labelled as such in the standard or not - there is a better alternative). If it were equivalent, I hadn't posted this. It isn't. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: suggestion (was Re: 1.7.7: Localization does not follow the language of the OS)

2011-01-12 Thread Matthias Andree
er using $(...) command substitution instead of the obsolete backticks `...`. The former mixes properly with quoting, so to get into the right habit and set the proper example: export LANG="$(locale -uU)"# (or -sU for system default locale) -- Matthias Andree -- Problem report

Re: rebase question

2010-12-17 Thread Matthias Andree
e peflagsall and perlrebase, does NOT make .dlls writable if they aren't (with chmod, that is), so it chooses to fail. I wonder if ASLR (that which you can enable with peflagsall) should become the default on systems that support it. It seems to help quite a bit, too, on systems th

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 16.12.2010 19:17, schrieb Warren Young: > On 12/15/2010 8:55 PM, Matthias Andree wrote: >> same story with 1.7.8s. Builds successfully 4 times, then fails. > > I upgraded my DLL to yesterday's snapshot and ran the build through a > further 80 iterations. No failures. &

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-15 Thread Matthias Andree
> Removing work directory NOW. rm: cannot remove `/usr/src/fetchmail-6.3.19-1/inst/usr/share/locale/nl': Directory not empty It is now empty. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-15 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 15.12.2010 13:51, schrieb Matthias Andree: > Am 15.12.2010 10:05, schrieb Warren Young: >> On 12/14/2010 12:48 AM, Warren Young wrote: >>> This loop >>> has been running for about three hours (~40 iterations): >> >> Nearly 400 iterations now. I&#x

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-15 Thread Matthias Andree
re. Thanks. Haven't gotten around to doing tests with snapshot or build loops yet. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz

2010-12-14 Thread Matthias Andree
ly, would be most desirable choice. > > I beginning to think that we need a new mailing list to discuss issues > relating > to '[' . Clearly 2011 will be the Year of the Left Bracket. You could take this a bit more serious. Lack of documentation isn't something to jok

Re: Executable named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin?

2010-12-13 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 13.12.2010 17:54, schrieb Charles E Stepp: > One should be using if [[ ... ]] anyway. The '[[' is a builtin. So is [ ... ] - and [[ ... ]] may be special but "undefined" in POSIX, so "should be using [[ ... ]]" doesn't apply to portable scripting. -

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.12.2010 16:46, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Dec 12 16:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Dec 12 16:14, Matthias Andree wrote: >> > Am 12.12.2010 16:12, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> > > On Dec 12 15:16, Matthias Andree wrote: >> > >>

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.12.2010 16:19, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> Then I wonder what makes my cygport (or the rm command it uses) fail as it >> removes the workdir... > > I guess debugging would sched a light... I'll be enjoying your instructions. -- Matthias Andree -- Prob

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.12.2010 16:12, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Dec 12 15:16, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am 12.12.2010 13:42, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> >> > So, what cygwin tries to do in the first place is to move files in use >> > into the recycle bin. However, on Wind

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
0, the if() {} block on ll. 521 - 525 should be moved INTO the loop. You don't ever need to run that loop more than three times. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
if (unlink("dir/file")) fail("unlink"); if (rmdir("dir")) fail("rmdir"); if (close(fd)) fail("close"); sleep(2); puts("success"); return EXIT_SUCCESS; } /* END Of cyg-rmdir.c */ -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Executable named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.12.2010 13:38, schrieb Daniel Colascione: > On 12/12/10 4:34 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: >>> [ -f file ] && echo is >> you cannot run scripts containing this >> under a "set -e" regime. > > Yes you can. > > `-e' >

Re: Executable named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
lso often advised), so that errors don't go unnoticed. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

coreutils 8.5-2: lacks /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
coreutils 8.5-2 does not install a man page for the "[" command in section 1. This could/should be a symlink to test (test.1 contains the necessary documentation), or a trivial roff file containing .so man1/test.1 (untested). -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://

Re: Suspicious EXE named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin?

2010-12-12 Thread Matthias Andree
ripting with shells that don't have [ built-in. Details with "man test" ("man [" is missing on my Cygwin system), or in bash with "help [". -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-11 Thread Matthias Andree
:) > > Point me to your source package, and I'll download it and try building > it in a loop here. Thanks. Note that the official maintenance remains with Jason, I've been toying around with cygport only (your download tool needs to follow HTTP redirects, for curl, use -L; w

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-10 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 10.12.2010 22:18, schrieb Warren Young: > On 12/10/2010 12:22 PM, Matthias Andree wrote: >>>> Has anyone seen similar things? >>> >>> Yes and you seem to have nailed the problem - it happens when a virus >>> checker >>> hooks into a syscall

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-10 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 10.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:49:09PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >>Greetings, >> >>I see that "rm -rf" on a directory sometimes fails, like here: >> >>|>>> Creating source package >>| fetc

Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-10 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 10.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:49:09PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >>Greetings, >> >>I see that "rm -rf" on a directory sometimes fails, like here: >> >>|>>> Creating source package >>| fetc

1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition?

2010-12-10 Thread Matthias Andree
uspects among the BLODA residents do.) I'd rather not see the need to disable virus inspection software in order to run Cygwin though. Thanks & Best regards -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: Difference in behaviour between getifaddrs() and ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF)

2010-12-02 Thread Matthias Andree
ust > have multiple records and to drop the interface indices all together of the > form > ":1". Is there anything that mandates Linux/Solaris behaviour? Else you might as well argue with BSD which doesn't have these :N extensions. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports:

Re: scp just spews usage

2010-11-24 Thread Matthias Andree
rade). Does it work without trailing tilde (~)? SCP/SSH will put you into the home directory by default anyways, so it's not strictly required. Are there blanks in any of the names? Then remember to quote the command properly from the shell. Is scp an alias? Find out with "type alias"

rebaseall failures, propsal

2010-10-07 Thread Matthias Andree
might work more or less the same for rebaseall. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Matthias Andree
aid the community, > not distract it. Yeah, so scrap that forum stuff altogether and volunteer for writing Cygwin documentation, websites, etc. I'm sure (without checking) there's enough work waiting for contributors. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-06 Thread Matthias Andree
though such fragmentation of support places solved any problem. Instead, the inconciseness of a forum will make matters harder and lead to even more repeated questions... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ D

Re: 1.7.[67]: getting bash prompt takes > 50 seconds

2010-09-02 Thread Matthias Andree
ocesses is very costly in Cygwin, and that is an operation that happens a lot in shell scripts... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 01.09.2010, 01:37 Uhr, schrieb Michael Ludwig: Matthias Andree schrieb am 31.08.2010 um 00:58 (+0200): On 30.08.2010 23:52, Michael Ludwig wrote: >The mutt mail reader shipping with Cygwin does not have SMTP >enabled, which I'd like to give a try. So I tried to build mutt, >b

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

2010-08-31 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 01.09.2010, 01:37 Uhr, schrieb Michael Ludwig: Matthias Andree schrieb am 31.08.2010 um 00:58 (+0200): On 30.08.2010 23:52, Michael Ludwig wrote: >The mutt mail reader shipping with Cygwin does not have SMTP >enabled, which I'd like to give a try. So I tried to build mutt, >b

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Andree
On 30.08.2010 23:52, Michael Ludwig wrote: The mutt mail reader shipping with Cygwin does not have SMTP enabled, which I'd like to give a try. So I tried to build mutt, but encountered problems. [... long whine about non-working build snipped ...] Did you use the ./prepare script first if buil

Re: How/Where do I get an older version of Cygwin?

2010-08-27 Thread Matthias Andree
's sending mail from the crontab, if that helps. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Postinstall script errors

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.08.2010 17:15, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Aug 12 17:04, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am 12.08.2010 16:54, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> > On Aug 12 16:52, Matthias Andree wrote: >> >> Am 12.08.2010 16:40, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> >> > I misin

Re: Postinstall script errors

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.08.2010 16:54, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Aug 12 16:52, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am 12.08.2010 16:40, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> > On Aug 12 16:10, Matthias Andree wrote: >> >> Am 12.08.2010 15:37, schrieb Jeremy Ramer: >> >> > I verified

Re: Postinstall script errors

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 12.08.2010 16:40, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Aug 12 16:10, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am 12.08.2010 15:37, schrieb Jeremy Ramer: >> > I verified that $created_passwd and $created_group were both no so >> > both conditionals will fail. But because the last conditi

Re: Postinstall script errors

2010-08-12 Thread Matthias Andree
scripts more rigidly. This is not desirable. The proper way to fix this is: set -e # this is providing that the whole script is written properly. # it causes immediate exit after one command (outside if, and # outside || or && lists) fails - usually desirable, bu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-11 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 10.08.2010, 23:00 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 10.08.2010, 19:54 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82 has been released. However, given the n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Matthias Andree
off special-case handling of c:\blah entirely - just like it is in make-3.81. How about pointing people to mingw-make? I've been using that to build ntemacs for quite a while... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: cron starts multiple commands

2010-07-20 Thread Matthias Andree
ackup script succeed and complete, or does it abort prematurely? -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: configure error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ../.. "../../winsup/cygwin"/../..

2010-07-19 Thread Matthias Andree
ed prefixes such as "../..". Details: Please see the "Preset Output Variables" section in the autoconf manual. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Problem with select() on console

2010-07-15 Thread Matthias Andree
er case if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in the environment, much like some GNU tools will switch to a more POSIX compliant behaviour with that variable. Just a rough thought... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: Cygwin extremely slow after updating from 1.5.1 to 1.7.5

2010-07-12 Thread Matthias Andree
eon processors, 800MHz bus, 7200rpm > sata hard drive with 8MB cache. It is painful > to see such dismal performance. ls isn't representative, as it uses stat() which is painfully slow on Cygwin. If bash is slow to start, see if uninstalling bash-completion fixes it. For me it helped

Re: Interesting discovery in the C library that Cygwin uses

2010-07-09 Thread Matthias Andree
ational scripts) to these ctype.h functions. There are probably more... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Q: rebaseall/rebaseperl ?

2010-07-05 Thread Matthias Andree
have to have a registry, or algorithm to derive base addresses, for each and every potential library. Meaning: not manageable with reasonable effort. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentatio

rebaseall failure/perlrebase conflict?

2010-07-05 Thread Matthias Andree
he same address. This is a nuisance.) -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin Performance and stat()

2010-06-06 Thread Matthias Andree
lso configure which types of files it's going to scan. For starters, you might try that... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: vfork always fail problem

2010-05-19 Thread Matthias Andree
verybody a favour (if you wish, which is your choice), if you could test if the problem reproduces with Cygwin 1.7.5, and goes away with the snapshot. Thank you. Best -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: vfork always fail problem

2010-05-14 Thread Matthias Andree
th the path; does the same happen if you use "fork" rather than "vfork"? vfork()ed child processes must not do anything but modify a variable of type pid_t, call _exit() or exec*(). -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: setup messing up ntfs permissions

2010-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
course essential for Cygwin as a project or installation). -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Thomas Wolff wrote on 2010-04-29: On 29.04.2010 13:28, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 29.04.2010 12:53, schrieb Thomas Wolff: [on closed terminal] On Linux, select() indicates an exception and EIO. On SunOS, select() indicates both an exception and input (weird), Not weird, you appear to be

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
not too bad, an application can handle that as well.) > * select() with timeout hangs. > > Especially the latter can hardly be handled by an application. Pointers for workarounds: alarm(), signal(). -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.20.1-1

2010-04-19 Thread Matthias Andree
bunch! -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin 1.7 man: '-' char in option/switch in man page is not displayed/not encoded well if LANG=C.UTF-8

2010-04-19 Thread Matthias Andree
#x27; char in switch/option in man page is not displayed. ... See the following post for additional information on this issue: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00508.html Which misses the point. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin 1.7 man: '-' char in option/switch in man page is not displayed/not encoded well if LANG=C.UTF-8

2010-04-19 Thread Matthias Andree
f&r1=1.61&r2=1.62&sortby=date http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/groff/tmac/doc.tmac?root=groff&r1=1.38&r2=1.39&sortby=date It appears that this got fixed in groff 1.20.1 (I just tried this on 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) with mintty 0.6.1 on Windows 7 Pro German), so an update

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-04-09 Thread Matthias Andree
t hit [-] (uninstall), [+] (install or keep), and trigger reinstall (possibly with r or !). Let's not force users to even more rat-moving and rat-ear-stroking. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Setup 2.693 unable to replace files through reboot

2010-04-08 Thread Matthias Andree
If further Cygwin packages are required that happened to be pre-installed on my computer, I haven't added them. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: git on cygwin 1.7.2/1.7.4

2010-04-08 Thread Matthias Andree
-a" or similar, those that were told to reboot may be unaware they're using the older version. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Setup 2.693 unable to replace files through reboot

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Andree
ME file of cygwin's setup) on cygwin-apps@, Corinna applied it, and Christopher stated he'd include it. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

setup.exe 2.693 installation status incompletely shown in Create Icons/Installation Status screen

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Andree
t. Also the Copyright mentions "-2009" but I believe there were changes in 2010 already. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Setup 2.693 unable to replace files through reboot

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Andree
mandree root 150K 2010-04-03 11:29 /usr/sbin/cygserver.exe.new* I would have thought that the .new files were gone after the reboot, or these got somewhat more appropriate owners (I always run setup.exe as Administrator, and have it install "for all users")... -- Matthias Andree

Re: Setup 2.693 unable to replace files through reboot

2010-04-07 Thread Matthias Andree
I'll answer two of Dave's postings, I hope this also provides answers to CGF's questions: Am 06.04.2010 21:35, schrieb Dave Korn: > On 06/04/2010 17:23, Matthias Andree wrote: > >> 4. launch setup.exe (version 2.693) > > As administrator, or as ordinary user?

Setup 2.693 unable to replace files through reboot

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Andree
in use - cygwin1.dll, retry/continue (continue requires reboot) 8. click continue 9. setup completes, reminds me to reboot 10. reboot 11. uname -a still shows cygwin1.dll 20100331 is in use. What's up? Can I help to debug this? -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Andree
Christopher Faylor wrote on 2010-04-02: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:21:25PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: I shut down all Cygwin processes (ps -al only listed itself) and replaced cygwin1.dll before doing the trials. What else would I have to do to be sure? Or did I miss replacing other parts

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Andree
Chris Sutcliffe wrote on 2010-04-06: On 2 April 2010 10:06, Matthias Andree wrote: So let's get the network out of the picture. I also observe: 20100328, no processes running, ash -c "rebaseall -v" starts logging dll names after < 1 s. 20100331, same situation, ash -c "

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Andree
butor ID: SUSE LINUX Description:openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Release: 11.2 Codename: n/a -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Andree
the system has become an order of magnitude slower or goof up flushing console output that would also count as regression. I've run experiments in mintty as well as cmd.exe windows. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Corinna Vinschen wrote on 2010-04-01: On Apr 1 18:17, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 01.04.2010 16:43, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:00:42PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: >>Euh, 20100331 seems to introduce regressions for me compared to 20100328. >&g

Re: fopen with "a+" does not respect setting file read position to start of file

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Eric Blake wrote on 2010-04-01: On 04/01/2010 05:53 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: Well if that worked previously it was a bug. Not a Cygwin defect, but an application bug, and what Gavin named "work around" is actually the right fix. POSIX explicitly states that the initial position

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 01.04.2010 16:43, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:00:42PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote on 2010-03-31: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:14:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 01.04.2010 16:17, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Apr 1 14:00, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote on 2010-03-31: >> >> >On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:14:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0400, Charle

Re: fopen with "a+" does not respect setting file read position to start of file

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
nd up at the then current end of file, irre- spective of any intervening fseek(3) or similar. Irrelevant, as that is neither from POSIX nor from cygwin-doc-1.5-1. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Andree
ed, it succeeds once in a while. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Christopher Faylor wrote on 2010-03-28: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:53:44AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 04:34:27PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: At least that would explain why I can breakpoint exit() with gdb tracing svn, and it hangs if I continue into exit

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-29 Thread Matthias Andree
t;. If that's indeed the case, is it easy to add the needed dependency to the libsasl2-devel package? That does not help - I've always had libdb4.2-devel installed (including /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.la which at first glance seems complete). -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports:

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-28 Thread Matthias Andree
do with this. > Might also tie into the thread about rxvt not exiting. At least that would explain why I can breakpoint exit() with gdb tracing svn, and it hangs if I continue into exit(). -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-28 Thread Matthias Andree
's the script. Crude, works for me in a particular situation, so no warranties whatsoever (you're free not to use it): --- #! /bin/bash # repair-cygwin.sh - (C) 2010 Matthias Andree set -eu if [ $'\x20' != ' ' ] ; then echo "Your shell does not understand \$

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-28 Thread Matthias Andree
so seemed weird. > > So I tried uninstalling libsasl2-devel. It worked! No hang! This > seems to be the key. The sasl2 initialization appears to hang if the > -devel package is installed, otherwise it works fine. > >> I just tested on an up-to-date XP SP3 machine and i

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-26 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 26.03.2010 12:23, schrieb Dave Korn: > On 26/03/2010 10:12, Matthias Andree wrote: > >> Might of the additional libraries may have regressed? From the strace log, I >> suspect cygsasl2, which itself loads libraries, for instance >> /lib/sasl2/cygplain-2.dll and /lib/sas

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-26 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 26.03.2010 11:54, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Mar 26 11:12, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Am 26.03.2010 10:32, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> > On Mar 26 15:40, Nayuta Taga wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> "svn --version" hal

Re: "svn --version" halts in 1.7.2-2

2010-03-26 Thread Matthias Andree
dll +C:\cygwin\bin\cygneon-27.dll + C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll + C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl-0.9.8.dll + C:\cygwin\bin\cygsvn_ra_serf-1-0.dll +C:\cygwin\bin\cygserf-0-0.dll + C:\cygwin\bin\cygsvn_ra_svn-1-0.dll +C:\cygwin\bin\cygsasl2-2.dll +C:\c

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Matthias Andree
*after* somebody telling him how > to do this with setup.exe?!? Message propagation times may not be the same for everyone - greylisting; server hiccups and retry schedules, and other reasons might cause this... -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken?

2010-03-23 Thread Matthias Andree
ed from a BSD stack, and relevant TCP/IP fingerprints supported that. I never bothered to check though. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-14 Thread Matthias Andree
it's not working properly, and that it corrupts data. Depending on exact circumstances and legislation, this may even be illegal. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygw

Re: Problem in calling _stat() on Cygwin 1.7

2010-02-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 27.02.2010, 12:57 Uhr, schrieb Dave Lee : Is it a problem with _stat(), or did I make a mistake in the 2nd argument in calling _stat()? If it (meddling with internal affairs, such as using _stat) hurts too much, then don't do it (use stat instead, it's standardized). -

Re: Fetchmail call to procmail no longer works under Cygwin 1.7.1-1

2010-02-25 Thread Matthias Andree
ocmail is apparently dead for nearly a decade. For debugging, I'd also suggest to mention LOGABSTRACT=all and LOGFILE along with VERBOSE=yes. LOGFILE=/dev/stderr may prove useful in command line testing. I'd suggest to drop procmail in the long run and provide Sam Varshavchik'

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