Re: Some notes on building gcc-4.3.0

2007-06-18 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: Does this mean that we'll start to libgcc_s.dll's sprouting like mushrooms in the install dirs of various apps, or in *gasp* %WINDIR%/system32 over the coming years? Is this library versioned at all? What about conflicts? You already see the effects of this in the Linux

Re: Java

2007-06-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian D. McGrew wrote: None, I was asking if a standard Sun JDK could be installed on cygwin and if so, which one? Of course it can. But... (you knew there was a but..) Sun's JDK is a native windows application, which means Java programs that it runs won't know how to deal with

Re: directory listing differences

2007-06-05 Thread Shankar Unni
Joseph Michaud wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/windows/system32 $ ls -al tsdiscon.exe tsecimp.exe ls: cannot access tsdiscon.exe: No such file or directory That's probably because the file is exclusively locked, and the stat performed by ls fails. See if you see the file if you pass

Re: ruby for cygwin comes without gem command

2007-05-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: gem is not part of the ruby standard package. And don't try to install a native gem from the main ruby site and download gems using that, or you'll end up with a mishmash of cygwin and native libraries for ruby. Been there, done that :-). -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Anyone using Clearcase on Windows with Cygwin (esp over SSH)?

2007-05-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: 1.5.24 only asks the PDC and fails if it's unable to connect to it. Try a developer snapshot. The function to contact the logon server has been changed in CVS HEAD to use the newer DsGetDcNameA function instead of the old NetGetDCName. Only on NT4 Cygwin falls back to

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems]

2007-05-09 Thread Shankar Unni
David Arnstein wrote: Is there a particular software firewall that does not interfere with Cygwin? That's a bit of an open-ended question.. I use Sunbelt (formerly Kerio) personal firewall. I turn off most of its features HIPS, NIPS, ... and Cygwin applications work OK for me, most of the

network auth problems with public-key SSH login

2007-05-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Another one of those problems... When I log in using SSH public-key authentication onto a Windows 2003 box, it sets up my LOGNAME correctly, but the USER is set to sshd_server. When I access a network share that requires domain logon credentials, the username it sees is sshd_server, and it

Re: Puzzling local share permissions problem with ssh sessions on Win2K3

2007-05-02 Thread Shankar Unni
Andrew DeFaria wrote: WAG: Have you done mkgroup -d /etc/group? Yes, I did - see my original post in this thread.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Anyone using Clearcase on Windows with Cygwin (esp over SSH)?

2007-05-02 Thread Shankar Unni
is causing the MVFS such heartburn. I would appreciate any ideas for debugging this from anyone.. Thanks, -- Shankar Unni. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Anyone using Clearcase on Windows with Cygwin (esp over SSH)?

2007-05-02 Thread Shankar Unni
Shankar Unni wrote: I finally got a bit of a clue during a recent login. It seems that *occasionally*, my machine is able to contact the PDC when logging in via sshd, so that LOGONSERVER is \\pdcname, rather than \\localmachinename (using cached credentials). Further confirmation

Re: Puzzling local share permissions problem with ssh sessions on Win2K3

2007-05-01 Thread Shankar Unni
Shankar Unni wrote: Dave Korn wrote: cygcheck.out: CYGWIN = 'ntsec' Perhaps you need smbntsec as well? Thanks! That did it.. Alas, that didn't *quite* do it. I finally figured out that I had to uninstall and re-install (ssh-host-config) the sshd service, with CYGWIN=ntsec smbntsec

Re: Puzzling local share permissions problem with ssh sessions on Win2K3

2007-05-01 Thread Shankar Unni
Shankar Unni wrote: My login groups are incomplete. I just saw this post: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00129.html Is this situation still present in the latest (1.5.24) Cygwin? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: Puzzling local share permissions problem with ssh sessions on Win2K3

2007-04-30 Thread Shankar Unni
Dave Korn wrote: cygcheck.out: CYGWIN = 'ntsec' Perhaps you need smbntsec as well? Thanks! That did it.. Of course, now I need to figure out why Clearcase itself refuses to recognize that share, but that's a separate issue. Back to the coal mine.. -- Unsubscribe info:

Puzzling local share permissions problem with ssh sessions on Win2K3

2007-04-27 Thread Shankar Unni
I have a Win2K3 SP1 system, freshly installed with the latest bits, and sshd installed with privilege separation (using ssh_host_config). The /etc/passwd has both local and domain users (in that order), as does /etc/group. I have a local shared directory c:\Views (shared as

Re: Puzzling local share permissions problem with ssh sessions on Win2K3

2007-04-27 Thread Shankar Unni
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Hey Shankar. WAG here. With Windows 2K3 came more security. Check to see what your *share* permissions are - not just the permissions of the folder but the permissions of the share point. I believe MS added something like Network: Deny for security sake and that screws

Re: Throwing c++ exception across threads

2007-04-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Eric Lilja wrote: [...] Any messages are displayed in an editbox. If a severe error occurs, an exception is thrown. Will there be any problems if I catch these exceptions in the main thread? [...] Just thinking about that setup makes my head spin. Yes, I suspect there'll be lots of

Question about cygwin Ruby distribution

2007-04-26 Thread Shankar Unni
One of our users here who likes to use Ruby was trying to use the cygwin distribution, and then tried to fetch some ruby gems. His Ruby installation ended up getting corrupted with native (non-Cygwin) libraries being loaded for some of the ruby gems, causing all sorts of interesting problems

Re: VS 2005 cl.exe /Zi fails under ssh public key authentication

2007-04-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=389029SiteID=1 indicates that this was a bug in VS that was fixed in SP1. Actually, the last post in that thread seems to indicate that this problem is *not* fixed in SP1.. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?

2007-03-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00729.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00397.html My bad. Sorry, didn't search diligently enough. (Though I wonder how it improves security to ignore env vars from /etc/profile or the system environment..) --

Re: slow bash spawn

2007-03-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Marc Compere wrote: cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive E: failed: 2 cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive Y: failed: 53 cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive Z: failed: 53 These wouldn't be drive letters assigned by your Sonic DLA,

Re: sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?

2007-03-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: I suppose a way to reconcile these would be a utility that you call from ~/.profile that enumerates the list of environ key/value pairs from the registry and installs them into the process' environment. That's an interesting idea. regtool list -v

Re: sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?

2007-03-16 Thread Shankar Unni
Shankar Unni wrote on 2007-03-13: I have a very odd situation here on my Win2K3 box. I have sshd set up, using privilege separation. I can log in as a local user, but the environment I see is not the same as the environment I see when I log in on the main desktop. Ping? Has anyone else

sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?

2007-03-13 Thread Shankar Unni
I have a very odd situation here on my Win2K3 box. I have sshd set up, using privilege separation. I can log in as a local user, but the environment I see is not the same as the environment I see when I log in on the main desktop. Specifically, several System environment variables are

Re: Problem with ruby and cygssl-0.9.8.dll

2007-03-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Geoffrey T. Cheshire wrote: The issue is well stated here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00873.html Though some of the points made there aren't necessarily as stated. Brian - you said: You can get around this by setting up some kind of registry of assigned base addresses, or

Re: Install Lame encoder under cygwin

2007-03-12 Thread Shankar Unni
You want to know how to build lame, or how to run lame to encode your music files? For the former, why bother? http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/lame.html (and a whole host of other sites) host binaries for lame. For the latter, follow the links on that page to go to the home

Re: javac?

2007-03-09 Thread Shankar Unni
Samuel Thibault wrote: Linux distributions usually provide a javac symlink pointing on gcj, which is handy for all these applications that assume that javac is the proper command for compiling java programs. If you must do that, at least do it with alternatives. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: parens in PATH break tcsh /etc/profile.d init for xorg and lapack

2007-02-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Mark Charney wrote: /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/bin/amd64 Yeah, you have to take care to quote all the directories that you work with. As long as you do that, it should handle parentheses just fine. % setenv PATH $PATH:/usr/bin (x86) % echo $PATH

Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function

2007-02-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Andrew Makhorin wrote: { double t0 = get_time(), t1 = get_time(); [Maybe OT?] 1. I can't remember if C guarantees that comma-separated *declarations* are initialized in order or not.. And to think I used to be an ANSI C guru :-(. 2. The reason that the t0 t1 fails, but t0 and t1

Re: Oracle 10g sqlplus takes 6 quits or exits when run from cygwin

2007-02-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Jason Thurston wrote: I just installed cygwin and I just installed oracle 10g on my Windows XP computer.If I run sqlplus to connect to oracle 10G through a tns connection then when I want to exit I have to type quitenter 6 times in a row and then it will exit sqlplus. I've been using

Re: xargs problem

2007-02-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Layne wrote: $ uname -a; uptime; time echo 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81

Re: is there any little-endian and big-endian issue with cygwin?

2007-02-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Tim Beuman wrote: Java uses big-endian while Windows/DOS (and cygwin) uses little-endian. [OT] False. Java only uses big-endian for external representation of integers. In memory, integers follow the native layout of whatever architecture it's running on. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Chuck wrote: Any other ideas? Anyone? Have you followed the problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ? Also, if you are familiar with strace, you may want to run strace /bin/ls in your /cygdrive directory, and see if anything obvious (to you) pops up. Else, you

Re: ls command not outputting file names.

2007-02-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Chuck wrote: Attached files are output from cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out, and and an strace of a failed execution of ls /cygdrive. By failed I mean that the command produced no output. That's funny. The readdir() is cranking along, and reads c, g, h and k. Each of these consists of the

Re: Using a DLL built with cygwin in VC++

2007-02-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Papasha wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use a DLL created with cygwin in my VC++ project. First of all, have you read the Cygwin FAQ (specifically, *all* the questions in the Programming FAQ? Read the caveats about linking Cygwin DLLs into VC++ programs. Specifically, Q 16. After you have

Re: ls not showing anything - sometimes

2007-02-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Chuck wrote: $ cd /cygdrive $ ls $ ls -a . .. c g h k s $ ls -a $ ls -a Hmm. Can't replicate this on my system. Nor can I replicate your other report, about corrupted ls output. You should definitely report a problem in the format described by http://cygwin.com/problems.html.

Re: mp3 tag editor for cygwin?

2007-02-01 Thread Shankar Unni
Andy Kriger wrote: Can someone recommend a good command-line tool for editing mp3 tags? My recommendation is to roll some simple Perl scripts using MP3::Tag, which works beautifully for me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Support planned for vista symbolic links?

2007-01-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [..] The next major Cygwin release will be able to read native NTFS symlinks and treats them as symlinks. However, it's not planned to utilize native NTFS symlinks when creating symlinks in Cygwin. Actually, that sounds perfect. The main thing is to recognize them as

Support planned for vista symbolic links?

2007-01-28 Thread Shankar Unni
This article from Mark Sysinternals Russinovitch discusses the new real symbolic link feature in Vista (real in that it's classic Unix-style, where the symlink is interpreted on the local OS, even for links in mounted shares, and can refer to either a file or a directory):

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Shankar Unni
TDavid Smiley wrote: I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my username in upper-case. So it is DSMILEY. As David said, that's because you created your username in ALL UPPERCASE when setting up the user on Windows. The only way to fix this for you would be

Re: Exclude cygwin folder from malware scans?

2007-01-09 Thread Shankar Unni
Fred Ma wrote: After some surfing, I haven't found any evidence of malware targetting cygwin. I'm considering excluding the massive file tree from scans (AV, SpyBot, AdAware). I'd be interested in more experienced opinions about this. Thanks. I'd still be wary of as-yet-unknown viruses that

Re: Vista coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: The manifest route is pretty simple, you just create an .xml file, then refer to it in a resource file, and then windres does the rest. But in cases like this, we really *don't* want to run with elevated privileges - if I'm installing to /tmp, I definitely don't want

Re: CVS patch for cygwin

2006-11-28 Thread Shankar Unni
Dave Korn wrote: Last time I checked, which was admittedly some years ago now, wincvs was just a gui wrapper that shelled out to a commandline cvs client to do the actual work for it. So isn't the real problem that you're using the wrong cvs client software with wincvs, i.e. you're using a

Re: CASE error in script file

2006-11-08 Thread Shankar Unni
Doug wrote: case $1 in If $1 is undefined (i.e. you pass in no arguments), this line becomes case in which is incorrect syntax, of course. Answer: quote the $1. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: CASE error in script file

2006-11-08 Thread Shankar Unni
Doug wrote: I did put the $1 in and it still gives me the same error case $1 in '/test.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `in '/test.sh: line 1: `case $1 in Do you have a DOS CR in there? (shows up as ^M in vim?) See the many, many threads in here about bash handling of CRs.

Re: rxvt: Ctrl+C leaves child process of native processes

2006-10-30 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: When I hit ^C, bash and cmd exit immediately leaving perl and the two java processes. Cygwin has no way of knowing what the children of non-cygwin subprocesses are. So, as you've found, if you don't use a Cygwin program, you won't get linux-like signal results.

Re: DLL error messages suppressed under zsh/RXVT

2006-09-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: $ mv cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll.NOT $ ./openssl $ No popups or error messages, just silently exits. Before sending your cygcheck.out, try checking the archives. This problem was talked about a couple of months ago. See the thread starting

Re: bash-3.1-7 BUG

2006-09-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Eric Blake wrote: But I intend that on binary files, \r\n line endings will treat the \r as part of the line, so at least binary mounts won't suffer from the speed impact of treating a file as unseekable the way bash 3.1-6 does. Would it be possible to do this dynamically (instead of keying

Re: In which package is cygdpstk-1.dll (missing in xorg-x11-bin-dlls)?

2006-08-30 Thread Shankar Unni
Rafal Mantiuk wrote: I cannot find the package that would contain cygdpstk-1.dll. Package search shows that it should be in: xorg-x11-bin-dlls/xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0-1 but the current version of this package, which is 'xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.99.901' does not contain this library file.

Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing

2006-08-28 Thread Shankar Unni
Pierre Baillargeon wrote: Thanks for the information. I will not submit a patch because I suspect the current behavior is prefered by the majority: having a dialog pop-up in the middle of scripts is much more catastrophic is most case than having a return code, for unattended processing. So I

Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing

2006-08-24 Thread Shankar Unni
mwoehlke wrote: What I expected is a dialog would pop-up saying XYZ.dll not found like cmd.exe does, for example. I assume you are running 'on the glass'? I just verified the same behavior (no error popup, non-zero exit status) 'on the glass' - tcsh and bash in a native windows command

Re: 1.5.21: bash-completion 20060301-1 failure

2006-07-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Hans wrote: ++ awk 'BEGIN {FS=,} {for (i=1; i=2; ++i) { \ gsub( .*$, , $i); \ if ($i ~ /^demons/) {print $i} \ }}' /home/David

Why does tcl84.dll not follow the Cygwin DLL naming convention?

2006-07-25 Thread Shankar Unni
I notice that the Tcl/Tk libraries are the only DLLs (*) in Cygwin's /usr/bin that don't follow the cygwin DLL naming convention of prefixing cyg to the DLL name. (The issue that prompts this idle speculation is described in these postings:

Re: Why does tcl84.dll not follow the Cygwin DLL naming convention?

2006-07-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: I think it's because tcl/tk is one of the few packages that is actually compiled as a windows native program. That's interesting. I've been dreading getting the source to it and looking into it - perhaps I should bite the bullet sometime.. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: setup - duplicating cygwin

2006-06-21 Thread Shankar Unni
Jim Easton wrote: cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin cd proc For which I received the message: bash: cd: proc: No such file or directory Of course. As you surmised, these two are *NOT* the same. The literal path /proc (and /dev) are treated specially. Unlike on linux, mount is not modifying the kernel

Re: Issue with Find command on windows NT

2006-06-09 Thread Shankar Unni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find: /cygdrive/i changed during execution of find (old inode number -506580184, new inode number -509781400, filesystem type is system) [ref 1114] Ah, finally, some actual details. Try a recent snapshot of cygwin1.dll from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots. --

Re: [1.5.19] Issues with installing on XPe

2006-06-02 Thread Shankar Unni
Erik D. Zane wrote: So, I will repeat the question: Is there a known issue with installing and using Cygwin on XPe? It most certainly is not an officially supported platform. That said, if it supports the Win32 API (as it probably does ;-), there's a *possibility* that it could be made to

Re: 20060521 snapshot, Ctrl-C, and Windows processes

2006-05-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Peshansky wrote: Noticed a problem today: if you start a Windows process in bash and press Ctrl-C, the Ctrl-C will be delivered to the process, but then bash (or the Cygwin wrapper that waits for the Windows process) will simply hang until the Windows process terminates. If the process

Re: Cygwin and Emacs: How to exit?

2006-05-17 Thread Shankar Unni
Lloeki wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: How is this better than simply using rxvt? I used rxvt for some time but puttycyg rolls better for me. [...] Plus, didn't we just see an announcement where future rxvt's were going to be built as (real-)X11-only, instead of with a stub X11 library (W11?)

Re: Cygwin and Emacs: How to exit?

2006-05-11 Thread Shankar Unni
Lloeki wrote: [...] puttycyg (google) [...] Almost the best thing since sliced bread! I'm an instant convert.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: __int64 errors when building Java wrapper for C++ based VTK.

2006-05-09 Thread Shankar Unni
Some Developer wrote: Cygwin version: 1.5.19-cr-0x5ef Java version: 1.5.0 Update 6 VTK version: 5.0.0 CC path: cygwin default CXX path: cygwin default I hope you're also using the -mno-cygwin flag when compiling your native stubs, or else you won't be

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-04-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: - The problem with Ctrl-C propagated to an unrelated child process (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00556.html) should be fixed. Thanks. This also solved a problem we had with a nohup'ed background processing receiving SIGINT from the interactive shell from

Re: Spam:Re: Find not working w/ Samba drive

2006-04-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Btw., I have hacked together a tiny testcase which lists a directory and evaluates the inode numbers using readdir and lstat. I would be interested to see the output for some smaller directories on shares using pre-3.0 Samba versions. This is the output from a server

Re: indexing cygwin data files for rapid search

2006-02-27 Thread Shankar Unni
Charles D. Russell wrote: Is there any utility that will index the contents of cygwin files (.tar.gz, etc.) for rapid search, like the Google personal search software for Windows files? I would not expect that the Google tool for Windows would include Linux compression and archiving formats.

Re: _kbhit

2006-02-17 Thread Shankar Unni
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Arend-Jan Westhoff writes: I cannot confirm your assertion that msvcrt.dll and cygwin1.dll cannot be used together. The Gary Exclusion Principle: Two C runtimes cannot occupy the same point in space at the same moment in time. The problem here is that

Re: ATT: gcc maintainer (was Re: cpp does not honor the -undef option.)

2006-01-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Peter Ekberg wrote: I have now, http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26052 Indeed, as one of the adds to this bug said, this is a target (i.e. cygwin)-specific issue. On Linux, gcc (at least 4.0.x, which Redhat FC4 comes with) prints out only __STDC_HOSTED__=1 when you do cpp

Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01615.html So I just installed snapshot 20060103. I'm running WinXP SP2. Before I installed the snapshot, I didn't have that ...\Apps\.Default\.Default key at all, and the beep apparently still worked for CMD. Now, I have

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Luke Vanderfluit wrote: long saga about windows Perhaps we're having a terminology problem here. Are you typing (literally) the string cd c:\ as the entire input to bash? If so, you need to be aware that all Unix-y shells do *escape processing* using \, so you have to double them up if you

Re: Switching Default Text Type

2005-12-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Lennart Borgman wrote: What is the minimum sequence of operations needed to switch default text type in Cygwin? mount -m commands.sh # edit commands.sh, and change -t to -b or vice versa sh commands.sh -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Is this possible to call cygwin dll outside cygwin?

2005-12-08 Thread Shankar Unni
David Xiao wrote: I found that my library.dll is *only* dependent on cygwin1.dll, though I can not simply put them into same directory to make them work. Is there any alternative suggestion? Thanks a lot! This is a frequently asked question. See http://www.cygwin.com/faq, and from there, to

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-29 Thread Shankar Unni
lin q wrote: A dumb question, could I somehow remove the encryption at all? Well, -c none doesn't seem to work :-), so I'm guessing your best bet is to use rsh instead of ssh for this. Voila, no encryption. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Where is cygwin bin directory?

2005-11-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Lennart Borgman wrote: I want to start Cygwin from within an application. It is in a package that will be distributed to many computers and I have no idea at all if Cygwin is installed and in that case where it is installed. Cygwin is not an application that you start, so this makes no

strange bash behavior with CYGWIN=tty (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lynx-2.8.5-4)

2005-11-18 Thread Shankar Unni
Rodrigo Medina wrote: The cycheck output is attached. Can't see anything odd here. Of course, since you didn't use the '-v' and '-r' options, I don't see your environment, or your registry settings here. But while I was playing around with my own settings to try to reproduce this (I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lynx-2.8.5-4

2005-11-16 Thread Shankar Unni
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Right now I am using a W98 box, but the same happens with a laptop with XP. regards, Obviously, at this stage, you should be following the cygwin problem reporting protocol. Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

2005-10-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: No, it doesn't. I just tried it in 6.3 and this behaviour is the same as in 6.4. ?? % pwd /cygdrive/c/temp/test % ls % touch x % ls -li 20547673299962566 -rw-rw-rw- 1 shankar None 0 Oct 25 12:10 x % vim X % ls -li total 1 20547673299962566 -rw-rw-rw- 1 shankar None

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

2005-10-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Christoph Jeksa wrote: Supposed, you have a file X.sh ( exactly in this spelling ). If you enter: vim x.sh ( also exactly in this spelling ) and write it back after any modification, the file will be renamed even to x.sh.

Re: popularity-contest for Cygwin?

2005-09-30 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: We already have such a tool. It's called cygcheck. When people post their cygcheck output to the list, it also contains the list of packages they installed. But not what they are *using*, which seems to be the big thing in popularity-contest. Given that disks are

Re: tcsh can't find executables in Path with wrong case

2005-09-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Cygwin tcsh does not share its hashing code with the Win32 version, it uses the same code as all other OSes are using. No other OS is using case insensitive hashing, so doesn't Cygwin tcsh. Thanks for the corrections. But bash is clearly doing something right, as:

tcsh can't find executables in Path with wrong case

2005-09-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Just a reiteration of http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00499.html, I guess. One of the executables in my PATH is called EXP.EXE (in that exact case). When I type just exp, tcsh can't locate it. It can if I type EXP. It's clearly something to do with the path hashing, as unhashing

Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: Cygwin already uses the default settings that we want it to use so, if this is implemented, we wouldn't want to make it the default. I meant if the user chooses 'DOS' (not the global default). I.e. don't ever mount c:\cygwin as text, even if the user asks for DOS.

setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-09 Thread Shankar Unni
Since the text-mode mounts discussion (re: the file command) drifted off into the merits of text vs binary mode (talk fodder), I thought I'd split off this one as a top-level message to reiterate the request. Could setup.exe be modified so that the choice of text vs binary (DOS vs Unix line

Re: file not working on executables?

2005-09-08 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode Totally agree. But we need to do a text mode install from setup.exe because so many of the tools we use are non-Cygwin tools, and cvs does nasty (or at least unattractive) things if the mount is binmode, and the

[OT?] Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied

2005-08-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There is a 'handle' utility from SysInternals that can tell you which processes have handle to a particular file... Though given that these are transient operations, you may not have time to fire up Handle to see who has the file. But there's an equally nice

Re: Permissions, again

2005-08-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: use POSIX permissions with POSIX permission rules - ntsec, use Windows permissions with Windows permission rules - nontsec Err, isn't that sort of a backwards terminology? When I see the word ntsec, I read it as use NT SECurity, vs. NO NT SECurity (i.e. something

Re: How do I make /bin/sh=sh

2005-08-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Eric Blake wrote: Actually, I'm playing with a change to bash, soon to be bash-3.0-12, where the postinstall script will leave /bin/sh alone if its timestamp is newer than /bin/bash. For one release. What happens after the next upgrade to bash? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied

2005-08-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Greg Jones wrote: cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied This is a symptom of something else having that file open. * What Antivirus software do you have? They sometimes take a few seconds to do their check, during which time the

Re: May g++ output windows-style paths instead of cygwin-style one?

2005-08-16 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: Angel Tsankov wrote: Is there any way I can force the cygwin build of g++ to output folders using windows style (e.g. c:\folder\file) instead of cygwin style (/cygdrive/c/folder/file) when writing dependency files (-MM option)? No, there's no way to do that.

Re: Cygwin and firewalls

2005-06-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:50:07PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: I am wondering if there is a firewall that coexists with Cygwin well. This is a good question and, if anyone has a definitive answer, I think it should go into the FAQ. I have had generally good

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Still cannot reproduce (my Process Explorer shows the same numbers as the TaskManager). Which version of Process Explorer are you using? I can. I've just downloaded v9.11 for Win2K/XP/NT 32-bit. Anyway, it shows these wildly inflated Virtual Sizes for a lot of

Re: ls returns bad file descriptor

2005-06-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: After changing to a directory on another computer, I get bad file descriptor from an ls command: shaffekcd //explr_drivers5/reboot_results2 reboot_results2 shaffekls ls: reading directory .: Bad file descriptor I don't see this on my WinXP SP2 box running 1.5.17.

Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Dunno why it prints cmd.exe but by design (minus flaws) tcsh only starts applications given w/o path if the application is in the internal hash table. The internal hash table stores the application names w/o .exe suffix. Odd. The native build of tcsh on Win32 seems to

Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: So, in conversation with Corinna, I think that we're starting to lean towards making /bin/sh == bash sometime soon. Excellent idea. And it even seems to handle the automatic switch to POSIX mode correctly when called sh.exe. Talking of which, how good is pdksh

Re: pthread.h small problem

2005-06-02 Thread Shankar Unni
Yuval Turgeman wrote: Hi, The pthread_cleanup_push and pthread_cleanup_pop macros seems to be broken in the CVS (misplaced brackets). I hope I'm not posting to the wrong list, but here's the patch... I'm pretty sure the braces are placed like that *deliberately*, to force you to bracket code

Re: find command in cygwin

2005-05-01 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: This message is produced by GNU find. find -name a . will result in such. Oops. (Crawl under rock..) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: find command in cygwin

2005-04-29 Thread Shankar Unni
lin q wrote: $ find . -type f -print find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] Do you see anything wrong? $ which find /usr/bin/find This combo means that you have C:\Windows\System32 in your PATH environment before C:\cygwin\bin. Either flip these

Re: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Shankar Unni
Morche Matthias wrote: cygwin1.dll not found comes up during the update of cygwin This is a common problem, if you're updating a bunch of packages including cygwin all together, and one of the packages has an uninstall script that runs some other cygwin binary. Setup normally downloads

Re: Netscape or Mozilla binaries for Cygwin?

2005-03-31 Thread Shankar Unni
103571.1247 wrote: I've also been looking for a way to run Netscape or Mozilla under Win98 Cygwin (under XWin with graphics), but I haven't found one yet. Umm, for a practical reason, or just as an exotic intellectual exercise? Win98?! Are you also maybe running it on a 486? That would be a

Re: package for netstat?

2005-03-28 Thread Shankar Unni
Shapiro, Jonathan wrote: But if other cygwinners use Win netstat, I'll use it too. [OT?] ping, tracert (not traceroute), nslookup and netstat are a few of the shining exceptions among Windows clones of BSD tools, in that they're as generally good as the originals (actually better in a couple of

Re: Case handling of environment variables

2005-02-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Volker Quetschke wrote: Can anyone point me to a message/webpage that explaines the reason for this conversion? Unfortunately I didn't find any explanation in the archives or the FAQ or the User's Guide. The biggest reason is PATH. Most (all) POSIX programs will look for the environment variable

Re: Directory names

2005-02-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Dave Korn wrote: First off, even on POSIX, * isn't a valid filename character [Clang!] % mkdir '*' % ls */ % -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: 1.0-1: ping problem

2005-01-28 Thread Shankar Unni
Jason FU wrote: $ ping www.cygwin.com Do you have problems understanding a *SIMPLE* request? Please provide the details as mentioned in the web page http://cygwin.com/problems.html. In case that wasn't clear to you: Please provide the details as mentioned in the web page

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