Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

2005-10-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:09:58PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: P.S.: We (?) will try the next snapshot ASAP, unfortunately this means in this case on the next weekday (monday). I added new debugging and a new locking mechanism to the latest snapshot. It's possible

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-1

2005-10-03 Thread David Rothenberger
On 10/1/2005 8:34 PM, Eric Blake wrote: I've uploaded a test version of coreutils, 5.90-1. This is a new, unstable upstream release, with a number of changes from 5.3.0. In particular, quite a few changes have been made upstream in regards to text vs. binary mode, so some feedback on this lis

Re: cygpath feature suggestion

2005-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:29:22PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: >>In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation. Take a >>look at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists. It is just not in >>the man page. > >I fail to see what he requested. What he wanted was like 'cygpath -pf >-'

Re: cygpath feature suggestion

2005-10-03 Thread Joe Smith
In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation. Take a look at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists. It is just not in the man page. I fail to see what he requested. What he wanted was like 'cygpath -pf -' except that instead of using colons to seperate the path list,

popen/pclose: unexpected behavior

2005-10-03 Thread John O\'Leary
Hello, The following program hangs when its pipes are closed in the same order in which they were opened, and terminates when its pipes are closed in the reverse order. I've never seen this on other platforms - it a bug? Or is there a subtlety I'm unaware of? Thanks --John -

Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed

2005-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:09:58PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: >P.S.: We (?) will try the next snapshot ASAP, unfortunately this >means in this case on the next weekday (monday). I added new debugging and a new locking mechanism to the latest snapshot. It's possible that the new locking may fi

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

2005-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 07:40:55PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: >> Doesn't work. >> >> >That makes it unlikely that it's really running out of memory. Must be >that "system error", then... It might be a windows "system heap" problem. See: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

2005-10-03 Thread Michael Schaap
On 3-Oct-2005 18:56, Aaron Humphrey wrote: > On 10/2/05, Michael Schaap wrote: > >> To be able to check whether something has changed in the path handling, >> I've uploaded a version of cygstart that prints out the exact >> ShellExecute call it is making, at >>

Perl ldflags - packaging bug, upstream bug, or weird feature?

2005-10-03 Thread Max Bowsher
$ fgrep -- '-L/usr/local/lib' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/Config_heavy.pl lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' ldflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' ldflags_nolargefiles=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' The above shows the presence of -L/usr/local/lib in the packaged perl installation config vars. This is a problem,

Re: cygstart regression [Was: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed]

2005-10-03 Thread Aaron Humphrey
On 10/2/05, Michael Schaap wrote: > To be able to check whether something has changed in the path handling, > I've uploaded a version of cygstart that prints out the exact > ShellExecute call it is making, at > . Could you perhaps download > that, try it out

Re: cygpath feature suggestion

2005-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:34:58PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: >It would be useful if cygpath could work as a filter, taking in lists of >paths on the standard input and put them out one per line on the standard >output. This could be used as a work-around for > for F in >`c

cygpath feature suggestion

2005-10-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
It would be useful if cygpath could work as a filter, taking in lists of paths on the standard input and put them out one per line on the standard output. This could be used as a work-around for for F in `command_or_pipe_creating_a_list_of_files_with_spaces_in_them` do

Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

2005-10-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to cygwin.overbored [AT] spamgourmet [DOT] com on 10/2/2005 7:36 PM: ^^ [It would be nice if you would set your mailer to provide a user name in the From: line; Mozilla Firefox is not very good at munging emai

Re: CygIPC-2.01-2

2005-10-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 3 02:37, TAN TH wrote: > hi Wilson, > from > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-09/msg00055.html > you say that CygIPC 2 is now an official package. > > at > http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/ > > it is not longer valid. > Also, I see quite a number

CygIPC 2

2005-10-03 Thread TAN TH
is version 2 of CygIPC reliable? I see a lot of posting on problems using CygIPC 2. what is your advise? I need to install LAM_MPI using Cygwin, but it needs CygIPC 2 to be installed. pls advise. thanks. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choi

CygIPC-2.01-2

2005-10-03 Thread TAN TH
hi Wilson, from http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-09/msg00055.html you say that CygIPC 2 is now an official package. at http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/ it is not longer valid. Also, I see quite a number of postings on problems relating to CygIPC-2. What