RE: file not working on executables?

> From: Corinna Vinschen [snip] > You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode, it > will always give trouble when you expect it the least. I've had everything mounted as text for years, and the only trouble I've ever had is not related to the existence of textmode mounts, but to progra

Re: Please try a snapshot - stty issue

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:47:07PM -0700, Peter Rehley wrote: >Hi, > >I tried stty on snapshot 20050908 and I still get an error message: > >stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600 ; # Different baud then current baud. >stty: /dev/ttyS0: unable to perform all requested operations. > >If I

Re: error in gcc command exectuion

At 06:36 AM 9/8/2005, you wrote: > > > >Hello, > >i am new to cygwin and compiler writing. >I am actually only using bison, flex and gcc from this pacakge. > >i am getting below error when runing gcc command: >/cygdrive/c/temp/ccG2W75I.o:example6.c:(.text+0x206): undefined >reference to `_yylva

Re: slogin and problems with network shares

At 08:00 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote: >On 8 Sep, Larry Hall wrote: >> >> I get this if I try the above after sshing with pubkey authentication. >> Works fine with password auth. I'm using the same versions of ssh and >> Cygwin as you list. Are you sure you've logged in with password auth?

Re: Where's fpu_control.h ???

At 07:44 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote: >Hi.Which lib should I install on cygwin/gcc to get fpu_control.h?? I >need this for making a c program. The results of should answer your question. As always, .

Re: Simple find command does not work for * .html

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Matthew Movafaghi wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) > > To: Matthew Movafaghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks. > > [snip FULL HEADERS] Umm, and there was no need to q

Re: Simple find command does not work for * .html

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted > >From: ericblake AT comcast.net (Eric Blake) > >To: Matthew Movafaghi , cygwin AT cygwin.com http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > > `find d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name *.properties` > It was user error... of course. Thanks for the fix. >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pcre-6.3-1, libpcre0-6.3-1, pcre-devel-6.3-1, pcre-doc-6.3-1 (SECURITY)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libpcre0-6.3-1 *** pcre-6.3-1 *** pcre-devel-6.3-1 *** pcre-doc-6.3-1 This is a security update; previous versions of pcre (4.x) in the Cygwin net release were outdated and subj

Re: RSync Stalling issue

Jonathan wrote: When backing up data off the desktop box ( debian <- windows ) the rsync will often stall. Note that if you can get the client to "push" the data to the server rather than having the server "pull" it, then there seems to be no hang problem. But firewalls often get in the way o

Re: Simple find command does not work for * .html

It was user error... of course. Thanks for the fix. I was just trying to find all writiable files of certain types. However, the command 'find /cygdrive/d -type f -perm -u+w -name \*.html' will sometimes not find a writable file when windows thinks that it is. When viewed with ls -l, the fi

Re: slogin and problems with network shares

On 8 Sep, Larry Hall wrote: > At 11:14 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote > >When I slogin to WIndows now, and enter my password, the network shares > >seem to behave differently. > > > > >Access is denied. > >$ net use L: '\\cisra\share' > >Enter the user name for 'cisra\share': System e

Where's fpu_control.h ???

Hi.Which lib should I install on cygwin/gcc to get fpu_control.h?? I need this for making a c program. Thanks. -- Leandro -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html F

Re: /var/log/lastlog

> Only way I know to install pkgs is cygwin's setup.exe > utility. Correct. > > Do you know what category do these show up in the setup.exe ? > > I looked at sub-category of nearly all categories. > I don't see these. Then don't look at the category view. Instead, hit the View button once i

Re: /var/log/lastlog

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, FHDATA wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:32:15 + > > From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: FHDATA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks. > > > Do you know what pkg do

Re: /var/log/lastlog

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote: Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:32:15 + From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FHDATA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /var/log/lastlog Do you know what pkg do I need to install to get 'last' ? http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.

Re: /var/log/lastlog

> Do you know what pkg do I need to install to get 'last' ? http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=last.exe -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: slogin and problems with network shares

At 11:14 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote >When I slogin to WIndows now, and enter my password, the network shares >seem to behave differently. >Access is denied. >$ net use L: '\\cisra\share' >Enter the user name for 'cisra\share': System error 1223 has occurred. > >The operation was canc

Re: Logout Terminal Services RDC ends ssh invoked by W2k3 service

At 02:43 AM 9/8/2005, you wrote: >We run an application under Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition as a service >using Firedaemon. That application invokes ssh connections using the command > >c:\cygwin\bin\ssh -T -l fill_in_the_username > >with the appropriate ssh keys setup well ahead of time. >

/var/log/lastlog

Hello, In theory (and practice) I should be able to: last -f /var/log/lastlog but 'last' no where to be found. Do you know what pkg do I need to install to get 'last' ? If, under cygwin, /var/log/lastlog to be viewed differently please advise Thanks, Farid -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: [patch] lrint/lrintf oddity

Thanks Brian. Patch checked in and s_lrint.c modified similiarly. -- Jeff J. Brian Dessent wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: $ gcc -Wall -O3 lrintf_test.c -o lrintf_test $ ./lrintf_test.exe lrintf_test ( .00) : ok lrint_test ( .00) : ok lrintf_test (3.000

Re: Logout Terminal Services RDC ends ssh invoked by W2k3 service

The developer who wrote the relevant code writes: The terminal window that ssh is running inside of is not visible. si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE; is used to accomplish this in the CreateProcess. si.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO); si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESTDHANDLES|STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW; si.hS

Re: file not working on executables?

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 t

Can't change background color of the XWin

I have installed cygwin and made a test.bat file that contains: @echo off SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH% SET XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults SET XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt SET XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New version of the Cygwin setup.exe program released

Very nice refinements! Thanks Brian! stephan(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:22 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New version of the Cygwin setup.exe program released

Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2: minor problem with colors

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: [Image with text and bitmaps having white background] It would've helped to describe this in words and only use the image as an illustration, for those of us with text mail readers. However, this was already reported and should be fixed in the next rel

Re: xargs still nok?

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:38:24 +, wrote: >> thnx everybody for xargs tutorial (bit of a strange beast xargs!). >> Here's the crux of the matter ISFAIUI >> >> if you want to pipe the o/p of find then xargs will 'regulate' the flow of >> filenames >> >> if you use the -exec method that is inhe

Re: Cygwin setup.exe 2.510.2.1 package installation crashing problem

On 9/8/05 10:23 AM, Mark Knipfer: I ran setup.exe (version 2.510.2.1), first selected to 'Download Without Installing' and received the updated packages. I ran setup.exe again and selected 'Install from Local Directory. In Cygwin's Progress window after the parsing of the ini file, Cygwin cra

Re: Cygwin setup.exe bugfix release 2.510.2.2

550 sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.7.17) Sorry, your email was addressed to a nonexistent user on this site. If you wish to contact the site administrator, please visit the following url: http://jaysonking.com/contact.php -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin setup.exe bugfix release 2.510.2.2

I have updated the Cygwin setup utility to version 2.510.2.2. This release is meant to work around the "unhandled exception" problems that were widely reported with yesterday's release. The setup.exe file can be downloaded from or by clicking on "Install Cygwin Now"

Re: xargs still nok?

> thnx everybody for xargs tutorial (bit of a strange beast xargs!). > Here's the crux of the matter ISFAIUI > > if you want to pipe the o/p of find then xargs will 'regulate' the flow of > filenames > > if you use the -exec method that is inherently on a per file basis so does > not > require

Re: xargs still nok?

> > # let find do the grouping, even faster than xargs! > > $ time find . -name '*' -exec echo {} + >/dev/null > > Hm. nice! I never heard about that one. Seems to be quite new. > POSIX 2003 added this feature, and GNU find only implemented it in 4.2.12 (i.e. cygwin has not had it until 4.2.25-1

Re: xargs still nok?

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:50:38 +, wrote: >> thnx everybody for xargs tutorial (bit of a strange beast xargs!). Here's the crux of the matter ISFAIUI if you want to pipe the o/p of find then xargs will 'regulate' the flow of filenames if you use the -exec method that is inherently on a per f

Re: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:16:11AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Public Mailing Lists wrote: >>It might be interesting to know what you have to do in order to get >>/dev. > >. And, then there's always this an

RE: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

Public Mailing Lists wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > >> Don't spread misinformation. Cygwin is a Unix environment >> emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about >> "depending on your installation"). >> >> > here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation: > $ ls /dev > ls

Re: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > > Don't spread misinformation. Cygwin is a Unix environment > > emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about > > "depending on your installation"). > > here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation:

/dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

Eric Blake wrote: Don't spread misinformation. Cygwin is a Unix environment emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about "depending on your installation"). here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation: $ ls /dev ls: /dev: No such file or directory It seems that

Re: xargs still nok?

> You could either use > > find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i something {} /dev/null \; > > which would make grep to show the filename. grep will think that it > searches multiple files, and will not find something in /dev/null. This > solution works well under Unix. With Cygwin, you may not ha

Re: xargs still nok?

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > # let find do the grouping, even faster than xargs! > $ time find . -name '*' -exec echo {} + >/dev/null Hm. nice! I never heard about that one. Seems to be quite new. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: xargs still nok?

> > Is Xargs still reqd for > > find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; Just because xargs is most often used on the other end of a pipe from find does not mean that find requires xargs, nor that xargs requires find. Both programs also have independent uses. In your example above, you are usi

Re: xargs still nok?

zzapper wrote: > Is Xargs still reqd for > > find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; It's not required, but using the above you will have to fork() and exec() an individual copy of grep for each file, which will be horrendously slow. If you used xargs, it will call grep with as many filenames

Re: xargs still nok?

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, zzapper wrote: > >yes, you should rather write > >$ find . -name "*.cfm" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i host > > Is Xargs still reqd for > > find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; This is a speed issue. find -exec will spawn grep for each found entry while xargs will group as

Re: xargs still nok?

zzapper wrote: Is Xargs still reqd for find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; Well, not exatctly. grep -i does not show you the filename, if you call it this way. You could either use find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i something {} /dev/null \; which would make grep to show the filena

Re: xargs still nok?

On Sep 8 15:29, zzapper wrote: > On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:01:31 +0200, wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: > >>>$ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host > >>>bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long > >> ^ > >> Nothing to do

Re: Callbacks from shared libraries compiled with cygwin

Michael Spicar wrote: > So I have two questions: > 1) Is it possible at all to have callbacks like this? > 2) If yes, must I have the import/export-lists? Yes, it's possible, but it's not considered great design. You have to use __declspec(export) on the symbols in the main .exe, and then produc

Re: xargs still nok?

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:01:31 +0200, wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>GNU xargs version 4.2.25 >>> >>>or more likely am I misusing xargs? >>> >>>$ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host >>>bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument lis

Re: Strange crash in -mno-cygwin DLL

Julian Hall wrote: > I'm compiling a library I've had working as a static library for a while > into a dll using 'g++ -mno-cygwin'. The compile works fine, and I'm This would be something that you should take up with the mingw list. > able to link an app to it, but the app crashes with the mess

Cygwin setup.exe 2.510.2.1 package installation crashing problem

I ran setup.exe (version 2.510.2.1), first selected to 'Download Without Installing' and received the updated packages. I ran setup.exe again and selected 'Install from Local Directory. In Cygwin's Progress window after the parsing of the ini file, Cygwin crashes. Windows XP shows a Dr. Wats

Re: Strange crash in -mno-cygwin DLL

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi, > > I'm compiling a library I've had working as a static library for a while > into a dll using 'g++ -mno-cygwin'. The compile works fine, and I'm > able to link an app to it, but the app crashes with the message > 'Application failed to initialize (C0

Re: About Cygwin announcements

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:21:33AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >While I agree with everything Corinnal posted above, there was an >alternative approach: for a bit, someone was following announcements >that forgot to describe the package with a description message. If >this is done properly (i.

Re: About Cygwin announcements

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 8 18:12, Luke Kendall wrote: > > CVS: --- Is this change worth noting in the package changelog? - > > CVS: > > CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically > > CVS: > > CVS: Modified Files: > > CVS:some-fil

Data point on texi2html 1.76

The new cygwin texi2html package is version 1.76, same as Debian unstable. Using it in the octave 2.1.71 build process results in html docs not building with this version. If I put version 1.66 in the octave source tree, same version as Debian stable, the docs build properly. I haven't investiga

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.15-3

On Sep 8 06:45, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/7/2005 4:35 AM: > > I've updated the version of file to 4.15-3. > > > > This release is supposed to solve problems examining binary files > > on textmode mounts. > > I don'

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.15-3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/7/2005 4:35 AM: > I've updated the version of file to 4.15-3. > > This release is supposed to solve problems examining binary files > on textmode mounts. I don't know if this is a regression, or exposing a bug with

Re: Missing definitions in termios.h

On Sep 8 14:05, Alex Kholodenko wrote: > > On Sep 5 13:10, Alex Kholodenko wrote: > > > While compiling some project I've got following errors: > > > > > > picport.cc:63: `TIOCM_RTS' undeclared (first use this function) > > > picport.cc:67: `TIOCM_DTR' undeclared (first use this function) > > > p

Re: Missing definitions in termios.h

> On Sep 5 13:10, Alex Kholodenko wrote: > > While compiling some project I've got following errors: > > > > picport.cc:63: `TIOCM_RTS' undeclared (first use this function) > > picport.cc:67: `TIOCM_DTR' undeclared (first use this function) > > picport.cc:70: `TIOCMSET' undeclared (first use this

Re: xargs still nok?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: Hi, GNU xargs version 4.2.25 or more likely am I misusing xargs? $ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long ^ Nothing to do with xargs. Use find in

Re: Sorry to bother about Rebase

Edward, See the following: http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPIOSPE On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:40:10PM -0700, Edward Gomez wrote: > I'm sorry to bother you at your personal email address but I have been > working for two days trying to get XEmacs for Windows to use the > Cygwin bash shell and uti

error in gcc command exectuion

Hello, i am new to cygwin and compiler writing. I am actually only using bison, flex and gcc from this pacakge. i am getting below error when runing gcc command: /cygdrive/c/temp/ccG2W75I.o:example6.c:(.text+0x206): undefined reference to `_yylval' i am runing a very simple example from

Re: xargs still nok?

On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: > Hi, > > GNU xargs version 4.2.25 > > or more likely am I misusing xargs? > > $ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host > bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long ^ Nothing to do with xargs. Use find instead of ls/w wildc

xargs still nok?

Hi, GNU xargs version 4.2.25 or more likely am I misusing xargs? $ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Callbacks from shared libraries compiled with cygwin

Hi! I use cygwin 1.5.17/(0.129/4/2) on a vmware installation on a linux computer. I have a small test application that consist of a main program and a shared library (dll) that is loaded by the main program with dlopen at RUNTIME. All is compiled with gcc and plain C-code. I have a global

Re: About Cygwin announcements

On Sep 8 18:12, Luke Kendall wrote: > CVS: --- Is this change worth noting in the package changelog? - > CVS: > CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically > CVS: > CVS: Modified Files: > CVS:some-filename > CVS: --

Re: About Cygwin announcements

On 8 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > What's different in this approach in relation to having an announcement > mailing list archive? Well, except for double bookkeeping. I'm trying to think of a way to improve the quality of the announcements. Several times I've found out about cool new feat

Re: sftp "connection closed"

On Sep 7 19:40, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: > Hi Jack, > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:57:59PM -0700, Jack Offerman wrote: > > On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > > > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > >

Re: About Cygwin announcements

On Sep 8 10:18, Luke Kendall wrote: > Despite reading all the Cygwin announcement emails assiduously, I'm > occasionally surprised to learn of significant improvements that > weren't mentioned in the announcements. > > No one has a perfect memory, so I can easily see how it'd be easy to > overloo

Re: Logout Terminal Services RDC ends ssh invoked by W2k3 service

On Sep 7 23:43, Michael Brian Bentley wrote: > We run an application under Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition as a > service using Firedaemon. That application invokes ssh connections > using the command > > c:\cygwin\bin\ssh -T -l fill_in_the_username > > with the appropriate ssh keys setup

Strange crash in -mno-cygwin DLL

Hi, I'm compiling a library I've had working as a static library for a while into a dll using 'g++ -mno-cygwin'. The compile works fine, and I'm able to link an app to it, but the app crashes with the message 'Application failed to initialize (C005)'. I've tried single stepping, but in

Re: file not working on executables?

On Sep 8 10:00, Luke Kendall wrote: > On 7 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Oh well, why are you still using textmode? We should drop this choice > > from > > setup.exe entirely. > > The logic went: > > 1) Under Windows, most of the programs we use are native Windows ones, >so we cho