Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Vincent R.
Ok, so I can confirm a problem with bash 3.2.49-23 on Windows 7 RC build 7100 64-bit. Basically, bash just crashes on startup. I don't have access to a Vista machine right now but it's worthwhile confirming on it. I don't have access to any of these (just XP, here), so I can't really tell

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 3 10:11, Vincent R. wrote: Ok, so I can confirm a problem with bash 3.2.49-23 on Windows 7 RC build 7100 64-bit. Basically, bash just crashes on startup. I don't have access to a Vista machine right now but it's worthwhile confirming on it. I don't have access to any of these

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Edward Lam
Eric Blake wrote: 61020293 looks like an address in the dll range, probably cygwin1.dll. It would be nice to know what function is dying, but doing that may require rebuilding a bash image with debugging symbols. Did you by chance do any rebasing? Maybe this is a case where I didn't use the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Eric Blake
Edward Lam edward at sidefx.com writes: 61020293 looks like an address in the dll range, probably cygwin1.dll. It would be nice to know what function is dying, but doing that may require rebuilding a bash image with debugging symbols. Did you by chance do any rebasing? Maybe this is a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Vincent R.
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:03:35 + (UTC), Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: Edward Lam edward at sidefx.com writes: 61020293 looks like an address in the dll range, probably cygwin1.dll. It would be nice to know what function is dying, but doing that may require rebuilding a bash image

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Eric Blake
Vincent R. forumer at smartmobili.com writes: is it the first time you compile readline with gcc-4 ? Yes, plus readline 6.0 is a new upstream release. -- Eric Blake -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Eric Blake
Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin at googlemail.com writes: I'm wondering if the problem is not how I compiled bash, but how I compiled readline. Dave, any pointers I should try or maybe a missed compiler flag I should have used to build libreadline7 with gcc4? I'm shooting in the dark,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin at googlemail.com writes: I'm wondering if the problem is not how I compiled bash, but how I compiled readline. Dave, any pointers I should try or maybe a missed compiler flag I should have used to build libreadline7 with gcc4? I'm shooting

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: I'm wondering if the problem is not how I compiled bash, but how I compiled readline. Dave, any pointers I should try or maybe a missed compiler flag I should have used to build libreadline7 with gcc4? I'm shooting in the dark, since I can't seem to reproduce the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 2 06:42, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/7/2 Christopher Faylor: And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in the last month.  Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms to work seamlessly

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Edward Lam
Christopher Faylor wrote: And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in the last month. Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:58:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 2 06:42, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/7/2 Christopher Faylor: And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in the last month. ?Every special

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:47AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in the last month. Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms to work

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Edward Lam
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:47AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in the last month. Every special case accommodation we

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:10:27PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:47AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Edward Lam
Hi Eric, I seem to no longer be able to install bash 3.2.49-22 in cygwin 1.7? I even tried doing a fresh cygwin install, choosing explicitly to use bash 3.2.49-22 instead of 3.2.49-23. During the installation, I get an error saying that cygreadline6.dll is missing. Any ideas? I also tried

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-02 Thread Edward Lam
Hi Eric, I got bash 3.2.49-22 running again in cygwin 1.7 after explicitly installing libreadline6. Ok, so I can confirm a problem with bash 3.2.49-23 on Windows 7 RC build 7100 64-bit. Basically, bash just crashes on startup. I don't have access to a Vista machine right now but it's

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Warren Young
Edward Lam wrote: No, they just aren't as mean as we are. We like to make things purposely slow because then people suffer. I asked what I thought was a sensible question for someone who doesn't know the internal workings of cygwin/mingw. It wasn't meant as a flame bait. Flame? Oh, my

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:14:23PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Like in many online fora, it's best to try to maintain a thick skin here, so as to be less easily upset. It is more fun to translate attempts at humor or sarcasm as a near-mortal wounds. This allows others to heroically step in to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 and Windows 7 RC

2009-07-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't top-post, and trim your replies to just include relevant text: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU According to Edward Lam on 7/2/2009 3:14 PM: Hi Eric, I got bash 3.2.49-22 running again in cygwin 1.7 after explicitly installing

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2.49-23, has been uploaded for those testing cygwin 1.7, replacing 3.2.49-22 as current. NEWS: = This is a package refresh, built against cygwin 1.7. It closes a buffer overflow exploit security hole that was reported to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Edward Lam on 7/1/2009 8:52 PM: On Wed, July 1, 2009 22:17, Eric Blake wrote: It also removes special handling for DOS paths, since cygwin 1.7 is less accommodating to those (use /cygdrive instead). Can you clarify what this means

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-01 Thread Edward Lam
On Wed, July 1, 2009 22:17, Eric Blake wrote: It also removes special handling for DOS paths, since cygwin 1.7 is less accommodating to those (use /cygdrive instead). Can you clarify what this means exactly compared to say the latest bash version in cigwin 1.5? Personally, I rely on using DOS

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:03:39PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: If you have /cygdrive/c mounted as a text mount point, then echo /cygdrive/c/file continues to do text processing, but the alternate construct echo c:\file now behaves in a binary fashion (in 1.5, I had been special casing DOS paths

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

2009-07-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/7/2 Christopher Faylor: And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various Why is Cygwin so slow threads that have been here in the last month.  Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause