Problem using shorcut keys

2006-08-03 Thread Shivakumar T.
Hi, I am using Cygwin 5.1 from my Win XP box to connect to Solaris machine. When i run any graphical text editor like nedit, with the numlock turned on I am not able to use the shortcut keys like Ctrl+S. When i do so gets typed. When i do the same after turning Numlock off it works fine. Th

1.5.21-2: missing announcement?

2006-08-03 Thread Danilo Turina
Yesterday Setup.exe showed to me a new versione of the cygwin dll (1.5.21-2) but I didn't notice any announcement about it. Is the announcement missing or the mirror wrong (mirrors.kernel.org)? Ciao, Danilo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Re: cygwin and db2

2006-08-03 Thread prz
Just to inform others that the problem has been corrected by db2 team. export DB2CLP=**$$** corrected the problem... Best Regards, Guy Przytula -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/cygwin-and-db2-tf2008740.html#a5645136 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Uns

Re: GnuPG bug: --refresh-keys

2006-08-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Max Bowsher wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> When running 'gpg --refresh-keys', the second updated key results in: >> >> gpg: renaming `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' to >> `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~' failed: Permission denied >> gpg: error writing keyring `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file rena

Re: memory problems with cvs gnu emacs on latest cygwin

2006-08-03 Thread emacs user
From: Reini Urban emacs user schrieb: I have reported this problem to the gnu emacs developers a few times, but it seems that emacs is not actively maintained for cygwin right now. perhaps someone here can help? I am happy to provide more details if needed. thanks... A brief problem d

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] clisp-2.39-1 released

2006-08-03 Thread Billinghurst, David \(CALCRTS\)
> From: Reini Urban > > I've taken over clisp maintainance from Sam Steingold, who > lost access to his windows box and to this list. Thanks. It successfully builds the maxima-5.10 release candidate 1. David NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are private and confidential and may

[ANNOUNCEMENT] clisp-2.39-1 released

2006-08-03 Thread Reini Urban
I've taken over clisp maintainance from Sam Steingold, who lost access to his windows box and to this list. Thanks Sam for a wonderful job anyway! clisp-2.39-1 is now built with cygport, but you can still compile it with ./configure; make; make install also. ./configure --fsstnd=redhat --with-d

Re: GnuPG bug: --refresh-keys

2006-08-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: > When running 'gpg --refresh-keys', the second updated key results in: > > gpg: renaming `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' to > `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~' failed: Permission denied > gpg: error writing keyring `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file rename error > gpg: key X

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-03 Thread mwoehlke
Adam Wolbach wrote: I'm a new subscriber looking to get some information relevant to the Coda File System development at Carnegie Mellon University, which uses cygwin as a platform to run on Windows 2000/WinXP. We rely heavily on symbolic links for a number of different features, most significa

cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-03 Thread Adam Wolbach
Hello cygwin mailing list, I'm a new subscriber looking to get some information relevant to the Coda File System development at Carnegie Mellon University, which uses cygwin as a platform to run on Windows 2000/WinXP. We rely heavily on symbolic links for a number of different features, most s

Re: line endings, file path names

2006-08-03 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
Hi Corinna, You wrote: So, since millions of users have DOS and Mac lineending files, every system in the world has to support them? I'm not suggesting that any system "has to" do anything, as the author or funder of a system you can decide what you want it to do. I'm trying to persuade you t

Re: memory problems with cvs gnu emacs on latest cygwin

2006-08-03 Thread Reini Urban
emacs user schrieb: I have reported this problem to the gnu emacs developers a few times, but it seems that emacs is not actively maintained for cygwin right now. perhaps someone here can help? I am happy to provide more details if needed. thanks... A brief problem description: memory us

Re: Windows popup/message box?

2006-08-03 Thread Reini Urban
Interesting. Does it go away a rebaseall? I meant: Interesting. Does it go away after a rebaseall? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Windows popup/message box?

2006-08-03 Thread Reini Urban
2006/8/3, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > $ perl -e 'use Win32::GUI qw(MessageBox); MessageBox(0, "message", "title", 64);' > Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Win32/GUI/GUI.dll' for module Win32::GUI: No such file or directory

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Does cp already use ftruncate? Yes, when copying from one regular file to another, cp (and mv and install, which share the same code for file copies) uses ftruncate. But it currently only uses it for creating holes at the tail end of sparse files, rel

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 19:08, Eric Blake wrote: > > > > Theoretically, it's possible to implement posix_fadvise only for offset=0 > > and length=, and have it fail with EINVAL otherwise... > > While technically not POSIX-compliant, it would still allow for better > > implementation of things like copy... > >

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Eric Blake
> > Theoretically, it's possible to implement posix_fadvise only for offset=0 > and length=, and have it fail with EINVAL otherwise... > While technically not POSIX-compliant, it would still allow for better > implementation of things like copy... Even better, have it return 0 for success but do

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 14:54, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Thursday 03 August 2006 2:37 pm, Dave Korn wrote: > What I am thinking about is modifying cygwin's open and write calls so that > they preallocate files in chunks of 10MB (configurable by an environment > variable). No. Corinna -- Corinna Vins

Re: line endings, file path names (was: Updated: sed-4.1.5-2)

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 11:43, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >and I'm seriously contemplating (for years) to just remove textmode > >from Cygwin. > > This is where I disagree completely. From "CRLF was a bad idea" does not > follow "hence we should not support it". This would just be s

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 13:22, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 3 01:54, Eric Blake wrote: > > > it would be accepted upstream. Now if there were something more > > > POSIX-y that we could do to speed things up, such as posix_fadvise, > > > > posix_fadvise can't be

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thursday 03 August 2006 2:37 pm, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 August 2006 18:50, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:18 am, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi Vladimir, > >> > > Please CC me - I am not on the list

line endings, file path names (was: Updated: sed-4.1.5-2)

2006-08-03 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [JA wrote:] Thank you very much for this fix. It will make life easier for all of us who struggle with a mix of native and Cygwin tools. It is very much appreciated that as far as line endings are concerned the attitude taken by Cygwin developers is not "use POSIX line en

RE: Make command error in Cygwin

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 August 2006 18:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to run Httperf tool in Cygwin. The Cygwin and httperf > are both installed on saperate drives on my syteam running win2000 the > steps involved in running httperf in cygwin are > > making a build directory and the navig

RE: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 August 2006 18:50, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:18 am, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: >> >> >> Hi Vladimir, >> > Please CC me - I am not on the list. >> >> Done :) >> > >> Actually, maybe the most informati

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:35 am, Christian Franke wrote: > Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > ... > > Also, I tried the following experiment - found a 17 MB file in > > ibiblio.org and downloaded it with FireFox. The file ended up fragmented > > into more than 200 pieces. Tried the same file with IE

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Thursday 03 August 2006 5:18 am, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > Hi Vladimir, > > >>> Please CC me - I am not on the list. > > Done :) > > Actually, maybe the most informative thing would be to look at the device > IO controls sent by both tes

memory problems with cvs gnu emacs on latest cygwin

2006-08-03 Thread emacs user
I have reported this problem to the gnu emacs developers a few times, but it seems that emacs is not actively maintained for cygwin right now. perhaps someone here can help? I am happy to provide more details if needed. thanks... A brief problem description: memory usage of emacs does not

Make command error in Cygwin

2006-08-03 Thread banjanap
Hi all, I am trying to run Httperf tool in Cygwin. The Cygwin and httperf are both installed on saperate drives on my syteam running win2000 the steps involved in running httperf in cygwin are making a build directory and the navigatinig to the build directory and configuring the tool from

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 3 01:54, Eric Blake wrote: > > > >I'm really seeing the non-optimized cygwin cp behaviour causing bad > > > >reputation, which could be easily patched and maybe even accepted > > > >upstream. Who knows. Eric what do think? Would it be worthful

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 01:54, Eric Blake wrote: > > >I'm really seeing the non-optimized cygwin cp behaviour causing bad > > >reputation, which could be easily patched and maybe even accepted > > >upstream. Who knows. Eric what do think? Would it be worthful to think > > >about? > > I don't really want to m

ctype.h extra paren in latest source

2006-08-03 Thread Tom Woodfin
In trying to build out of the latest CVS sources, I noticed that a spurious paren seems to have been added to mingw/include/ctype.h in rev 1.10: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/mingw/include/ctype.h.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.10&cvsroot=src&f=h See line 146. This caused a compilation

Re: Bug in cygcheck 1.90

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 17:09, Andr? Bleau wrote: > There is a bug in cygcheck 1.90 (included in Cygwin package > 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30): > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ableau 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30 14:21 i686 Cygwin > > $ cygcheck -V > cygcheck version 1.90 > System Checker for Cygwin > Copyrigh

GnuPG bug: --refresh-keys

2006-08-03 Thread Max Bowsher
When running 'gpg --refresh-keys', the second updated key results in: gpg: renaming `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' to `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~' failed: Permission denied gpg: error writing keyring `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file rename error gpg: key : "" 28 new signatures g

Re: Is casting away const OK for cygwin's execvp

2006-08-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: > Basically (see the attached example program) D'oh! I forgot the attachment. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D #include #include #include #include using

Is casting away const OK for cygwin's execvp

2006-08-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi I encountered this when writing some c++ program that uses execvp to start another process. Basically (see the attached example program) int execvp(const char *path, char * const *argv); the prototype of execvp() doesn't like constant char arrays for the second parameter, but that's what y

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:54:13AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >Christopher Faylor schrieb: >>On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:11:00AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 27 13:48, aldana wrote: >>isn

RE: 1.5.21-1 missing header file 'jpeglib'

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 August 2006 09:55, Susana Manrique de Lara Sanz wrote: > I've installed Cygwin about 5 times because the "jpeglib.h" seems to be > missing. > I install it from the internet and select all the packages needed. IN libs > section I need libjpeg62, libpng12-devel, zlib, which all seem to be > in

Re: 1.5.21-1 missing header file 'jpeglib'

2006-08-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Susana Manrique de Lara Sanz wrote: > We don't know what packages you've installed, so can't say if this is > a problem with your installation or a more general one. I've install the default packages plus this ones: Devel -> make, gcc-g++, cvs, gdb, libxml2-devel, patchutils

Re: 1.5.21-1 missing header file 'jpeglib'

2006-08-03 Thread Susana Manrique de Lara Sanz
We don't know what packages you've installed, so can't say if this is a problem with your installation or a more general one. I've install the default packages plus this ones: Devel -> make, gcc-g++, cvs, gdb, libxml2-devel, patchutils Net -> rsync, openssh Text -> util-linux Libs -> libjpeg62,

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Darryl Miles wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > > Doesn't this explain the problem nicely? > > > > http://www.cygwin.com//ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q4/msg00018.html > > Yes that casts light on the problem. Did you get around to trying to > reverse the direction of the data flow through

Re: Behaviour that I don't understand

2006-08-03 Thread Alan Chandler
Paul Slootman writes: On Wed 02 Aug 2006, Alan Chandler wrote: The /etc/rsyncd.conf file has the following in it chroot = false strict modes = false hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.1 [system] path = /cygdrive/c comment = the complete c drive [alan] path = /cygdrive/c/Documents a

Re: 1.5.21-1 missing header file 'jpeglib'

2006-08-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Susana Manrique de Lara Sanz wrote: > Hi everybody, Hi, Susana, > I've installed Cygwin about 5 times because the "jpeglib.h" seems to be > missing. We don't know what packages you've installed, so can't say if this is a problem with your installation or a more general one.

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-03 Thread Lev Bishop
On 8/2/06, Darryl Mile: Okay you seem to have some understanding as to how and why it failed for the "unison" group of users. Do you think the commented out code is fixable in any so that all cases work correctly ? Iff you can come up with a way to distinguish the two situations: 1) blocking r

This is the end. Goodbye.

2006-08-03 Thread Len Rose
netsys.com is under new ownership, and I have left for some dark skies in the mountains of New Mexico. This email address is no longer valid. If you know me you have my current email address., Otherwise, use my phone number. Goodbye from Len Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PS (in case you don't know..th

Re: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Christian Franke
Vladimir Dergachev wrote: ... Also, I tried the following experiment - found a 17 MB file in ibiblio.org and downloaded it with FireFox. The file ended up fragmented into more than 200 pieces. Tried the same file with IE - no fragmentation. The difference is probably that IE initially crea

RE: NTFS fragmentation

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 August 2006 00:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: Hi Vladimir, >>> Please CC me - I am not on the list. Done :) > > PS I'll try writing a C program when time permits - any suggestions on what > API besides regular open/write/close to use ? I think you might want to go straight to Z

1.5.21-1 missing header file 'jpeglib'

2006-08-03 Thread Susana Manrique de Lara Sanz
Hi everybody, I've installed Cygwin about 5 times because the "jpeglib.h" seems to be missing. I install it from the internet and select all the packages needed. IN libs section I need libjpeg62, libpng12-devel, zlib, which all seem to be installed properly except from the first one. I say t

Re: Help with cygports

2006-08-03 Thread Reini Urban
MaurĂ­cio schrieb: Cygports documentation says I should put a copy of setup.hint and README inside CYGWIN-PATCHES directory. Where is that directory supposed to be? Under your source directory. This is really a basic package maintainer question answered at the cygwin website. http://cygwin

Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

2006-08-03 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:11:00AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 27 13:48, aldana wrote: isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker cp-implementation? i m

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.1.5-2

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 11:05, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > You wrote: > > >I've updated the version of sed to 4.1.5-2. > > > >It reverts the default behaviour of sed back to treating CR/LF as > >lineendings, in contrast to 4.1.5-1, which only treated the trailing LF > >as lineending and the pr