Re: Downloading gnulib

2008-10-10 Thread Dorothy A Phoenix
Good evening. I realized the mistake I was making in my previous email...I'm using Vista and I believe the problem was due to permission settings not allowing me to download/save anything directly to my C drive; I tried again using a different save location and was successful. However, I am still

Downloading gnulib

2008-10-10 Thread Dorothy A Phoenix
Good evening, I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I need some assistance. I am trying to download the gnulib code to use with CodeBlocks/cygwin. I ran the command: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git I now have a directory with the following folders: hooks, info, objects, refs

ACL weirdness on Cygwin

2008-10-10 Thread Bruno Haible
The test-copy-acl.sh test fails for me on Cygwin. There appears to be a weird interaction between setting a file mode (chmod) and setting an ACL. Although on this platform the ACL has entries that correspond to user/group/other, the mode is *not* part of the ACL for all files. The test case showi

Re: getaddrinfo and sa_len

2008-10-10 Thread Bruno Haible
Paolo Bonzini wrote: > BTW, are there platforms with sa_len (typically BSD systems) and without > getaddrinfo? Yes, OSF/1 4.0 and 5.1 are in this case. The other platforms that lack getaddrinfo (HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, Cygwin, Interix) don't have sa_len. Bruno

Re: predefined CPP macros

2008-10-10 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Simon, > > | native fd| gnulib | native SOCKET | > > | | wrapped fd | | > > --- > > ReadFile, WriteFile | | |

Re: status

2008-10-10 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Simon Josefsson wrote: Actually, glibc declares ioctl in stropts.h too. However, stropts.h is not mention anywhere in the glibc manual. The glibc manual says the ioctl function is declared in sys/ioctl.h. The man page for ioctl on my system says sys/ioctl.h. As of Fedora's glibc-2.8-8, there

Re: improvements to announce-gen user messages

2008-10-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Jim. While attempting to use announce-gen for the first time >> I discovered and fixed a couple of minor flaws in its user >> interface. OK to push this to gnulib? >> >> commit f70e255e4db6200d6352ba794deb8d4f1

Re: status

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Simon Josefsson on 10/10/2008 3:01 AM: > > Does the new POSIX document change anything? I notice that "ioctl.h" > doesn't result in anything on the current opengroup.org site. Yes. It deprecates STREAMS, and renders the use of obsolet

Re: Winsock wrappers

2008-10-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> But the internal gnulib implementation might change, right? I mean, the > FD_TO_SOCKET macro is an implementation detail in gnulib, but if that > ever changes, it would break binary compatibility if GnuTLS exposes the > SOCKET vs int difference. No, there's no other sensible way. The macro is

Re: Winsock wrappers

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon wrote: >> Is there any way for gnulib to detect that a fd was created by gnulib's >> winsock wrappers or the native systems? > > Actually these two are different types: gnulib's file descriptors are 'int' > in the small nonnegative range, whereas a

Re: Winsock wrappers

2008-10-10 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon wrote: > Is there any way for gnulib to detect that a fd was created by gnulib's > winsock wrappers or the native systems? Actually these two are different types: gnulib's file descriptors are 'int' in the small nonnegative range, whereas a SOCKET is actually a HANDLE that can be passed to R

Re: status

2008-10-10 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Actually, glibc declares ioctl in stropts.h too. However, stropts.h is > not mention anywhere in the glibc manual. The glibc manual says the > ioctl function is declared in sys/ioctl.h. The man page for ioctl on my > system says sys/ioctl.h. Yes. And additionally, - a

Re: status

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where should ioctl() be declared? Certainly not in . Most > platforms have it in . Only AIX and Solaris declare it in > instead. POSIX specifies it should be declared , > but many platforms don't have (and who needs STREAMS anyway?). > The de-facto stan

Re: new module 'ioctl'

2008-10-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Bruno Haible wrote: > This defines a module for the 'ioctl' function, and moves its declaration > from to . > > Hopefully this is the last patch in this series of winsock-related > restructuring. Indeed. Thanks very much! Paolo

Re: improvements to announce-gen user messages

2008-10-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jim. While attempting to use announce-gen for the first time > I discovered and fixed a couple of minor flaws in its user > interface. OK to push this to gnulib? > > commit f70e255e4db6200d6352ba794deb8d4f110461d5 > Author: Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >