coredump on kill

2004-07-15 Thread Carlo Florendo y Flora
Hello, Upon invoking the following command, I get a coredump: /usr/bin/kill --list By the way, "kill -l" (bash built-in) works. Attached is cygcheck's output and the dump itself. Does anyone know of a workaround? Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610D39A1 eax=000

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:24:01AM +1000, luke kendal at cisra.canon.com.au wrote: > On 15 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > >: /home/luke ; exim -oi luke < /tmp/smff3624 > > >2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong > > owner, group, or mode > > >: /home/luke ;

COM Port Question

2004-07-15 Thread Tester Field
Hi,   I have installed Cygwin on a Dell PC with windows 2000, and I am trying to sent AT command to an external modem attached on COM1.   My questions are:   1) What do I need to do for cygwin to recognize COM1? 2) Is there a utility provided for the purposes.   My ultimate goal is to send SMS mess

Re: X starting difficulties

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 16 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just sat down with a colleague here who has never previously been able > to run X on his XP laptop. I got it working, but *only* by doing this: Apologies. I sent that to the wrong list. I have re-sent it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] luke -- Unsubscri

X starting difficulties

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
I just sat down with a colleague here who has never previously been able to run X on his XP laptop. I got it working, but *only* by doing this: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -multiwindow & - nothing else that I could think of could start X. (The laptops here typically have ZoneAlarm installed, but I don

ENQUIRY!

2004-07-15 Thread Mr Larry Hanks
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Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:30 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >* Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): >>Thorsten Haude wrote: >>>- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up >>>before in other applications? >> >>I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. >>Just han

Re: rxvt/bash tab problem

2004-07-15 Thread Robert R Schneck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If at a fresh bash prompt in an rxvt window (non-X) you type a TAB, > nothing happens, and no input from the keyboard appears thereafter, > until you use CTRL-C to interrupt whatever has blocked. Putting shopt -s no_empty_cmd_completion in your .bash_profile is a good w

ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 15 Jul, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific > > information in a man page? > > Well, from a user perspective it might be cool, but IMHO the original > man page shouldn't be changed, unless it's a change which should be > send up

How do *you* write portable shell scripts?

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
Thinking about this: > It would be nice if exim *itself* reported that running exim-config > might be a good idea. (Is exim-config used on other platforms besides > cygwin?) made me wonder what other people on this list do, to write portable shell scripts? In a shell script, is there an ac

Re: rsync very slow, but not a network issue

2004-07-15 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Alexis Gallagher" I've repeated your tests with a P4 2.4Ghz windows XP using SFU and a PIII 800Mhz running FreeBSD 5.1 > %[local copy, target file is different ] > %time rsync test1.mp3 test2.mp3 > > real 0m6.422s > user 0m0.430s > sys 0m1.431s P4: time r

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 15 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >: /home/luke ; exim -oi luke < /tmp/smff3624 > >2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong > owner, group, or mode > >: /home/luke ; ls -l /etc/exim.conf > >-rwx--+ 1 luke Domain U22025 Aug 29 2002 /etc/exi

Re: rxvt/bash tab problem

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 16 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But if you hit TAB twice in quick succession, you'll find that no input > appears (again), and that while you can use CTRL-C to get a fresh > prompt, input no longer works in the rxvt window. You have to kill the > window - it has become useless.

rxvt/bash tab problem

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
If at a fresh bash prompt in an rxvt window (non-X) you type a TAB, nothing happens, and no input from the keyboard appears thereafter, until you use CTRL-C to interrupt whatever has blocked. If you then type, input is working again. But if you hit TAB twice in quick succession, you'll find that

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up >>before in other applications? > >I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. >Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both th

Re: rsync very slow, but not a network issue

2004-07-15 Thread Alexis Gallagher
Reini (and Steven), Okay, I get. This benchmark you introduced below compares rsync on two variables: copy speed locally vs over the network, and copy speed for copies onto indentical target files vs different target files. And your benchmark showed that rsync was faster for copies onto pre-exis

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Sam schrieb: >> * Gerrit P. Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-15 15:24:45 +0200]: >> >> What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? >> Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? > g++ 3.3 cannot compile CLISP. > it is alleged that g++ 3.4 can. > (either versio

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Thorsten Haude wrote: - Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up before in other applications? I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both the user and the OS know what it is they are trying to d

Re: [BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:10:20PM +0200, Xavier Joubert wrote: >Hello Corinna, > > >Selon Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> The cause is a limitation in newer Windows NT versions, which make sense. >> Well, sort of. The protection modes PAGE_READWRITE and PAGE_WRITECOPY are >> mutually exl

gcc 3.3.1-3 runtime error: static data storage size

2004-07-15 Thread Pietro Brandani
I have the following example to propose: /** aa.c **/ #define NXY 5000 #define NXY 7000 int xy[NXY][NXY]; main(){ printf("ok\n"); } This will work when NXY=5000, but will generate a SIGSEV exception before reaching the first statement when NXY=7000. The array in the faulty case is 187MB. The gcc

Re: [BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Xavier Joubert
Hello Corinna, Selon Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The cause is a limitation in newer Windows NT versions, which make sense. > Well, sort of. The protection modes PAGE_READWRITE and PAGE_WRITECOPY are > mutually exlusive, which is enforced in calls to VirtualProtect since W2K. > > Sinc

Re: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 04:13:16PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 01:52 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: >>From: "Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)" >>> gcc uses the complex math functions from the system libraries, >>> (excluding builtins). They aren't in newlib, so cygwin doesn't have them. >>> >>> I, too, w

RE: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:52 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: >From: "Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)" >> gcc uses the complex math functions from the system libraries, >> (excluding builtins). They aren't in newlib, so cygwin doesn't have them. >> >> I, too, would like them as they are required by gfortran, which will be >>

RE: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Bobby McNulty Junior
And, -mno-cygwin does not work with Timidity, so I thought perhaps Gcc 3.4.1 might be better. There have been tons of fixes to the 3.4 series. I'll try and get back on the gcc maintainers list and work with gcc 3.5 to improve it even further for Cygwin and Windows. Gcc 3.3.1 will compile Timidity 2

mmap bug on Windows 9x

2004-07-15 Thread Anton Ertl
On Windows 9x/ME different calls to mmap sometimes produce the same address (without that memory being unmapped in the meantime, at least not by application code). Here's a trace of the application calls to mmap (on WME): try mmap($0, $400038, ..., MAP_ANON, ...); success, address=$8395 try m

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Gerrit P. Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-15 15:24:45 +0200]: > > What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? > Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? g++ 3.3 cannot compile CLISP. it is alleged that g++ 3.4 can. (either version of gcc can compile CLI

Re: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:47:39 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Can I also suggest that the FAQ's section called "Where can I get more > > information? / Where's the documentation?" would be an excellent place > > to mention that all the per-package readme files are collected together > > in /usr/s

Re: Setup installing xerces libraries for no apparent reason

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: >When checking for upgrades from ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin >(View: partial), I noted that setup ver. 2.427 wanted to install >libxerces-c21, libxerces-c22, and libxerces-c23. I hadn't had these before

Re: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 04:14:05PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 15 July 2004 15:38 > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> >> -Original Message- >> >> From: cygwin-owner On Beh

RE: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-15 Thread dgun
From: "Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)" > gcc uses the complex math functions from the system libraries, > (excluding builtins). They aren't in newlib, so cygwin doesn't have them. > > I, too, would like them as they are required by gfortran, which will be > (is) the fortran compiler in gcc-3.5.

RE: Installed fine and yet having issues...

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David J Jones > Sent: 15 July 2004 17:55 > Hello, >   I am knew to the list and after spending 3 days of looking > over docs, faqs > and web pages I have resigned myself to asking now.  I am > using Windows XP > Pro with the latest i

Re: [BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 18:19, Xavier Joubert wrote: > Hello dear Cygwin developpers ! > > > This is my first post here, so I would like to begin by sending you a big thank > for Cygwin ! This is a great tool to port programs to Windows. Thanks :-) > I think I found a bug in mprotect() implementation. This

Installed fine and yet having issues...

2004-07-15 Thread David J Jones
Hello,   I am knew to the list and after spending 3 days of looking over docs, faqs and web pages I have resigned myself to asking now.  I am using Windows XP Pro with the latest install of Cygwin. Everything seemed to install fine with no errors however when I start up the bash shell, I cannot ev

"Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll", help.

2004-07-15 Thread sen zhou
Dear Sir/Madam, I am trying to install the cygwin on my NEC Versa E120 laptop, which has a Windows XP Home Edition (Chinese Version) operation system. The system popped up an error message of "Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll" at the the process of around 99% installation. I skipped this error a

[BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Xavier Joubert
Hello dear Cygwin developpers ! This is my first post here, so I would like to begin by sending you a big thank for Cygwin ! This is a great tool to port programs to Windows. I think I found a bug in mprotect() implementation. This call is unable to set some protections (PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE

Setup installing xerces libraries for no apparent reason

2004-07-15 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
When checking for upgrades from ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin (View: partial), I noted that setup ver. 2.427 wanted to install libxerces-c21, libxerces-c22, and libxerces-c23. I hadn't had these before and wanted to see what was now requiring them, so I looked in setup.ini. The best

RE: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 15 July 2004 15:38 > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > >> Sent: 15 July 2004 02:00 > > > >> >

Re: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 15 July 2004 02:00 > >> >> "CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=" "CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-O2 -g -O0" >> "LDFLAGS=" >> > ^

RE: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 15 July 2004 02:00 > >> "CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=""CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-O2 -g -O0" > "LDFLAGS=" > > ^ > > That's it :-) > > > >Try `make CFLAGS

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: > Take a look at next strace: > strace -o xinit.strace3 xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard same as in the first trace. Right after startup of sh -c "xkbcomp ..." it stops while waiting for some winsock operation to complete. > Can you find why X hangs whe

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Tim Prince
At 06:24 AM 7/15/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Robert wrote: > Who's maintaining GCC for Cygwin? > Ours is getting old. Gcc 3.4.1 came out a couple of weeks ago. What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? Gfortran isn't

Re: Problem: Perl with connections using LWP Module

2004-07-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
. Thanks. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Dirk Fokken, Cross Development wrote: > In an attempt to run a perl based web-application on Windows using > Cygwin with Apache, I experience difficulties requesting content using > the LWP module. > > The overall installation

Problem: Perl with connections using LWP Module

2004-07-15 Thread Dirk Fokken, Cross Development
In an attempt to run a perl based web-application on Windows using Cygwin with Apache, I experience difficulties requesting content using the LWP module. The overall installation of Cygwin and the additional modules seems to be fine, since the call of the specific cgi-script from the command lin

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Robert wrote: > Who's maintaining GCC for Cygwin? > Ours is getting old. Gcc 3.4.1 came out a couple of weeks ago. What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? Gfortran isn't included, precompiled headers do not work on

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:18 AM 7/15/2004 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 15 01:39, Robert R Schneck wrote: >> Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> >Luke Kendall wrote: >> >> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. >> > >> > exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config >> > script under ex

Re: fopen()/fclose() turns off compression

2004-07-15 Thread Jeff
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:51:29 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jul 14 10:18, Jeff wrote: >> I wrote about this issue before, but now I have something specific to >> report. I'm running the latest Cygwin on WinXP Pro SP1, and have my HDD >> formatted NTFS. I also have it set to

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 05:57 PM 7/15/2004 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 15 Jul, To: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> : /home/luke ; mkgroup -l >> /etc/group > >Incidentally, after doing that I see: > >: /home/luke ; exim -oi luke < /tmp/smff3624 >2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wr

Re: gcc-mingw

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 11:16, bertrand marquis wrote: > hello > >on the latest release it seems that there is a problem with gcc-mingw >in fact the src package and the package contains nothing > > c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054 gcc-mingw-20030911-4-src.tar.bz2 > c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054 gc

Re: mmapped memory lost after fork

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 12:47, Tenedor Roquefort wrote: > I'm using Cygwin 1.5.10-3 and have found what seems to > be a fork/mmap bug. I have two examples where a forked > child cannot access memory that was mmapped by the > parent. The problem seems to arise when the parent > munmaps some pages (different from

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2004-07-15 Thread bertrand marquis
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RE: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Robert R Schneck wrote on Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:39 AM: > Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> Luke Kendall wrote: >>> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. >> >> exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific >> exim-config script under explicit user control. That avoids possible >>

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 Jul, To: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > : /home/luke ; mkgroup -l >> /etc/group > > Incidentally, after doing that I see: > > : /home/luke ; exim -oi luke < /tmp/smff3624 > 2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong o

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 01:39, Robert R Schneck wrote: > Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >Luke Kendall wrote: > >> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. > > > > exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config > > script under explicit user control. That avoids possible conflicts with > >

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 15 Jul, To: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > : /home/luke ; mkgroup -l >> /etc/group Incidentally, after doing that I see: : /home/luke ; exim -oi luke < /tmp/smff3624 2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mode : /home/luke ; ls -l /etc/exim.con

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > At 12:02 PM 7/15/2004 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> Thanks for the feedback. > >> > >> The problem is that the exim startup code thinks that you are a > privileged > >> user (see "privileged 1" above)

Re: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 10:01, you wrote: > On 14 Jul, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Yep, that would be a very good idea. In particular, it should point out > > that the information in the READMEs in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin takes > > precedence over that in the package READMEs and manpages. > > > > Maybe

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-15 07:18): >I don't know why knowing that someone says it's official helps much. It doesn't I just wanted to make sure whether there are any other issues that might come up later. Thank you for your help. Thorsten -- Guns don't protect freedom, people p