RE: local cygwin mirror

2006-03-11 Thread Stuart McGraw
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:48:45PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> Stuart McGraw wrote: > >>>- setup.exe's idea of what to download seems to depend on what is > >>>installed on the download machine. Is there some way to tel

Re: local cygwin mirror

2006-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:48:45PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: >> Stuart McGraw wrote: >>>- setup.exe's idea of what to download seems to depend on what is >>>installed on the download machine. Is there some way to tell setup.exe >>>to only download new/

Re: local cygwin mirror

2006-03-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > Stuart McGraw wrote: > > > - setup.exe's idea of what to download seems to depend on > > what is installed on the download machine. Is there some > > way to tell setup.exe to only download new/updated packages > > that are not already in the download di

Re: local cygwin mirror

2006-03-11 Thread Brian Dessent
Stuart McGraw wrote: > - setup.exe's idea of what to download seems to depend on > what is installed on the download machine. Is there some > way to tell setup.exe to only download new/updated packages > that are not already in the download directory, and not > pay any attention to what is instal

local cygwin mirror

2006-03-11 Thread Stuart McGraw
Can someone help me with some info about setup.exe? I have a slow internet connection and downloading a full Cygwin takes a couple days (with about 30% chance of success.) I also have to reinstall Cygwin frequently when Windows is reinstalled on my various machines. And I want to keep my Cygwin i

Re: select() too slow

2006-03-11 Thread Pedro Inacio
On 2006/03/11, at 18:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: But we don't know what the actual problem *is*. What does "too slow" mean? select takes an extra twenty milliseconds under Cygwin? select doesn't respond within 24 hours? You are right, I recognize that I haven't gave sufficient detai

Re: select() too slow

2006-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 06:04:37PM +, Pedro Inacio wrote: >On 2006/03/11, at 15:40, Eric Blake wrote: > >> >>I'm afraid that this is not a very good bug report, as you have not >>attempted to describe WHAT is too slow, and have not provided a simple >>test case that compiles out of the box, wit

Re: select() too slow

2006-03-11 Thread Pedro Inacio
On 2006/03/11, at 15:40, Eric Blake wrote: I'm afraid that this is not a very good bug report, as you have not attempted to describe WHAT is too slow, and have not provided a simple test case that compiles out of the box, with timing numbers on the test case compared between Linux and Cygwi

First (pre alpha) version of probably a new package

2006-03-11 Thread Frank Fesevur
Hi all, I have written a bash script for Cygwin. I haven't decided on the name yet, but the current codename is weft (Windows Explorer File Types). Maybe it will be the final name, but if anyone has a better suggestion I will surely consider it. The script can be used to associate for instan

Re: Installing Postgresql

2006-03-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Shailesh Gupta on 3/11/2006 3:20 AM: > hi there, > > i have installed cygwin on my system, now i want to know which version of > Postgresql has been installed with it. I also want to how am I supposed to > use Postgresql using cygwin and

Re: select() too slow

2006-03-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pedro Inacio on 3/11/2006 3:11 AM: > > Since I want to run the application on Windows also, I have ported it to > run on Cygwin. > Everything is ok except the poor performance of the select() function. > It is too dam slow. I'm afraid th

Installing Postgresql

2006-03-11 Thread Shailesh Gupta
hi there, i have installed cygwin on my system, now i want to know which version of Postgresql has been installed with it. I also want to how am I supposed to use Postgresql using cygwin and also do I need to install Postgresql after installation for cygwin is completed. thanks regards, shailesh

select() too slow

2006-03-11 Thread Pedro Inacio
Hello, according to the mailing list archives it seems that I'm not the only one reporting this problem, but I was unable to find any fix, workaround or even good explanation for the problem. I've done one application that uses the select() function, with sets for reading and writing, with