Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-26 Thread René Berber
René Berber wrote: [snip] > mmap() is returning an error code, probably EINVAL I just ddisn't care to look didn't > what was it because there shouldn't be an error. Yes, using perror I get "Invalid argument", so the implementation conside

Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-26 Thread surendar jeyadev
I am changing the Suject line as this could be a new thread. The 'old problem', I think, has been solved. --- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To me, this really sounds like a firewall problem > but you > might need to actually debug 'setup.exe' to verify > that. Well, in some

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-26 Thread René Berber
Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] >>No, in windows there is a requirement that mmap uses memory aligned to 64k >>(the >>infamous granularity). > > Then the result of pagesize() is not sufficiently big: POSIX says that > mmap() can return EINVAL if « the address [...] is not a multiple of > the page s

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
René Berber, le Sat 26 Nov 2005 15:19:06 -0600, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > [snip] > > This seems odd. In the cygwin case, pagesize() would not be sufficient ?? > > No, in windows there is a requirement that mmap uses memory aligned to 64k > (the > infamous granularity). Then the result

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-26 Thread René Berber
Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] > This seems odd. In the cygwin case, pagesize() would not be sufficient ?? No, in windows there is a requirement that mmap uses memory aligned to 64k (the infamous granularity). > And anyway, it should rather be >data2 = (char *) malloc (2 * 16 * pagesize); > N

Re: Folder ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.sunsite.utk.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin remains after install (FAQ alert)

2005-11-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 11/22/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > The script you're thinking of is Michael A. Chase's clean_setup.pl. > > Unfortunately, Googling for it mostly turns up references to it in the > > mailing list archives, and the actual site comes up only at the bottom of > > the page. It would be nice if t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.5.2-1

2005-11-26 Thread Reini Urban
I've updated the version of mathomatic to 12.5.2-1. It should appear at the mirrors soon. There have been many improvements and bug fixes since version 12.4.3. Changes: http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt About: Mathomatic is a highly portable, general purpose symbolic console math progra

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, René Berber, le Fri 25 Nov 2005 22:34:26 -0600, a écrit : > #if !defined(__CYGWIN32__) > data2 = (char *) malloc (2 * pagesize); > if (!data2) { > printf("second malloc failed\n"); > exit (1); > } > data2 += (pagesize - ((long) data2 & (pagesize - 1))) & (pagesize - 1); > #else

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: smartmontools-5.33cvs20051115

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Franke
Václav Haisman wrote: I get the following error with smartctl: Internal error: unable to compile regular expression ^(Hitachi)?HDS724040KL(AT|SA)80)$parentheses not balanced Please inform smartmontools developers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is in fact an invalid regular expression in the dr

Re: Installation Fails (Hangs?) on plain vanilla XP Machine

2005-11-26 Thread surendar jeyadev
--- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > surendar jeyadev wrote: > > > As things are not even getting to step 1, could there > be > something more fundamental at work -- such as > communication > problems? That's what I suspect, yes. You mentioned that you're using 'Direct Con

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: smartmontools-5.33cvs20051115

2005-11-26 Thread Václav Haisman
Christian Franke wrote: > The smartmontools package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. > > Smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to > control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and > Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most mo

faked inode numbers on network drives

2005-11-26 Thread Martin Koeppe
Hello, while using cygwin and interix/sfu in parallel, I noticed a "misfeature" in cygwin: inode numbers for files on network shares aren't shown correctly. I have a win2003 server with interix and created some hard linked files. Then I shared these to a win2000 client with both interix and