[patch] cygport, find ... -exec

Usually, the 'find ... -exec cmd ...' idiom makes a lot of sense -- it's faster, one fewer forks (maybe MANY fewer), etc. However, you sometimes run into troubles with extremely long filelists. As I did with ncurses (1183 files in the build/ directory) -- and I got a 'too many files' error fro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.3-5

Hello, I cannot use /dev/stdout with a bash-3.2.3-5. For example, 'echo hi >/dev/stdout' failed. It works fine after I reverted to bash-3.1-6. Thanks. namsh -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentatio

Re: Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

Brian Dessent wrote: Yuck. Why don't you just use iconv instead? Cuz, I thought it was only a library? :-? Cuz I already know windows starts in UCS-2 and know the codepage for UTF-8 (65001). With iconv, I don't know off the top of my head where to look for what document that specifies the

Re: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()

I tried your program as is: ~/test> cygthrash 0.000 Before std 0.781 After std 0.828 Result: Tue Nov 14 20:51:52 PST 2006 0.828 After close std 0.000 Before new 0.015 After new 0.062 Result: Tue Nov 14 20:51:52 PST 2006 0.062 After close new 0.000 Before std 0.766 After std 0.797 Resul

Re: Cygwin gdb and signals

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:19:21PM -0800, Gordon Prieur wrote: >Hi, > >I've got several questions relating to gdb (as distribited by >Cygwin.com) for Windows. I'm the team lead for the NetBeans C/C++ >Developer pack (C/C++ support on NetBeans). We're doing a gdb-based >debug module and I've got s

Cygwin gdb and signals

Hi, I've got several questions relating to gdb (as distribited by Cygwin.com) for Windows. I'm the team lead for the NetBeans C/C++ Developer pack (C/C++ support on NetBeans). We're doing a gdb-based debug module and I've got some questions pertaining to signal handling and the exception s

Re: cygwin-1.5.22-1 -> cygwin1.dll.new, not cygwin1.dll

Lester Ingber wrote: Larry: I couldn't use Cygwin to send an email until after I remamed cygwin1.dll.new; otherwise cygcheck would not have registered any cygwin1.dll. Sounds to me like you had cygwin1.dll loaded by some Cygwin app while you were installing and that you didn't reboot as reque

Re: cygwin-1.5.22-1 -> cygwin1.dll.new, not cygwin1.dll

Larry: I couldn't use Cygwin to send an email until after I remamed cygwin1.dll.new; otherwise cygcheck would not have registered any cygwin1.dll. Yes, as the poster after you in this thread noticed, I forgot to add the cygcheck.out in the first email, so I quickly resent it with the attachment.

Re: Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:58:15PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Linda Walsh wrote: >>Right now, to convert an NT text file in UCS-2 format, in bash, I use: >> >>mode.com codepage select=65001 reg export hklm\\software hklm-sw.reg5 >>cmd /c type hklm-sw.reg5 > hklm-sw-utf8.txt > >Yuck. Why don't yo

Re: cygwin-1.5.22-1 -> cygwin1.dll.new, not cygwin1.dll

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Lester Ingber wrote: I just used setup.exe to upgrade to cygwin-1.5.22-1. I rebooted, and I got a error that cygwin1.dll could not be found. Under Windows Explorer I saw /bin/cygwin1.dll.new (no other cygwin1.dll[.] file), so I renamed it to cygwin1.dll, and now ever

Re: Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

Linda Walsh wrote: > Right now, to convert an NT text file in UCS-2 format, in bash, > I use: > > mode.com codepage select=65001 > reg export hklm\\software hklm-sw.reg5 > cmd /c type hklm-sw.reg5 > hklm-sw-utf8.txt Yuck. Why don't you just use iconv instead? > What ever happened to the UTF-8

Re: Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive

Bodger wrote: How possible would it be to: 1) Install a Cygwin environment into a Thumbdrive, including /home, /usr etc. 2) With the help of some crafty shell scripts, be available from most Windows boxes by plugging the thumb drive in and running the environment from there? Google much?

Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)

Right now, to convert an NT text file in UCS-2 format, in bash, I use: mode.com codepage select=65001 reg export hklm\\software hklm-sw.reg5 cmd /c type hklm-sw.reg5 > hklm-sw-utf8.txt It isn't perfect -- any UCS-2 entries that are not valid UTF-16 won't get converted properly (since they don't

Re: cygwin-1.5.22-1 -> cygwin1.dll.new, not cygwin1.dll

Lester Ingber wrote: I just used setup.exe to upgrade to cygwin-1.5.22-1. I rebooted, and I got a error that cygwin1.dll could not be found. Under Windows Explorer I saw /bin/cygwin1.dll.new (no other cygwin1.dll[.] file), so I renamed it to cygwin1.dll, and now everything seems to be working O

Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive

How possible would it be to: 1) Install a Cygwin environment into a Thumbdrive, including /home, /usr etc. 2) With the help of some crafty shell scripts, be available from most Windows boxes by plugging the thumb drive in and running the environment from there? Thanx Julian -- View this messag

Re: "Bash Here..." menu option "howto" reg-entry

Frank Fesevur wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Yes...it requires installing a separate executable program. This "add bash prompt" requires no 3rd party binary and uses programs already included in the cygwin base package. The installable program also has a bug in that it invokes each shell window a

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RE: Xemacs print problem

On 14 November 2006 20:06, Eric Monsler wrote: > All, > > I have installed the xemacs as part of the cygwin setup. > > When trying to print from within xemacs, xemacs crashes and fails. > This occurs either when selecting File->Print... or File->Page Setup. > The full xemacs output is below. >

Re: "/bin/bash: Permission denied" with ssh to localhost under WinXP 2003 x64?

If I set my shell to "/bin/id -a" in /etc/passwd, I'm never able to log in successfully (I'm sure I typed my password correctly): C:\cygwin\etc>ssh localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: If I set my shell to "/bin/id", I see th

Re: bash does not retain env when running script

Arto Stimms wrote: I would like to run a bash script with a few changes in the environment. I would expect this to work: [snip] As a small example I have tried using these two minimal files init.sh: hello () { echo "hello world"; } alias listdir=ls script: hello listdir I get

RE: "/bin/bash: Permission denied" with ssh to localhost under WinXP 2003 x64?

On 14 November 2006 18:30, Brian Kasper wrote: > Here's the text of my most recent login attempt: > > >kasper 509 $ ssh localhost > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > >Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 > >forwarding. > >Last login: Tue Nov 14 10:00:34 2006 from 127

bash does not retain env when running script

I am running cygwin on a Windows 2000 machine. I would like to run a bash script with a few changes in the environment. I would expect this to work: bash --rcfile init.sh script But it does not seem that bash retain any of the changes I have made in init.sh? As a small example I have tried

Re: [Fwd: Re: ld: cannot perform PE operations on not PE files ...]

Dave you're right. I forgot to add -r. Thanks a lot. Your solution work fine. The problem now is that I should change the Makefile in order to have two different behaviour in CYGWIN and linux. The solutions are: 1. use if statements in order to execute different statements on linux and cygwi

Perl output dropped when invoking itself

I'm having Perl I/O problems on one machine that keep me from getting CPAN installations to work. On this machine if I execte: perl -e 'print `perl -e "require 5; print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;' from bash there is no output. On all my other machines it prints VER_OK. ExtUtils::MM_Unix does this t

RE: Cron and find

Thanks for the tips Brian. I have updated my script accordingly but (as you guessed) this has made no difference when run via cron. :( -Original Message- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 November 2006 11:12 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron and find [EMAIL PRO

Re: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()

On Tue Nov 14 15:53:36 2006, Eric Blake ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: > According to Loic Grenie on 11/14/2006 4:12 AM: >>The subjects says it all: when a process has a large memory space, >> a popen() triggers a long disk thrashing. The result can clearly be >> seen iwth the allegated cygtha

Re: Cron and find

Thanks for the tips Brian. I have updated my script accordingly but (as you guessed) this has made no difference when run via cron. :( ___ Tiscali Unlimited Broadband with FREE weekend calls only 12.99! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broa

Re: Why does CYGWIN remap my keys

Davin Pearson wrote: I sent this message to comp.windows.cygwin but received no reply. I have just installed Cygwin on my Mum's Windows XP Home computer and I noticed that it rebinds some of the keys, such as Sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by "it". What exactly are you using that has t

cygwin-1.5.22-1 -> cygwin1.dll.new, not cygwin1.dll

I just used setup.exe to upgrade to cygwin-1.5.22-1. I rebooted, and I got a error that cygwin1.dll could not be found. Under Windows Explorer I saw /bin/cygwin1.dll.new (no other cygwin1.dll[.] file), so I renamed it to cygwin1.dll, and now everything seems to be working OK. Is the postinstall

[Fwd: Re: ld: cannot perform PE operations on not PE files ...]

sorry forgot to mention to put my address in cc since I am not subscribed to the list --- Begin Message --- Brian and Dave, thank for your answer. I will try both solutions. It seems to me that if I install binutils-cross, then I could use the same Makefile for Linux and CygWin. The only chan

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.3-5

I saw a couple of posts mentioning a problem with /bin/sh not being updated and replaced with a copy of /bin/bash. I had the same problem here yesterday/today, when I discovered that none of my #!/bin/sh scripts was working. In fact, they did nothing! I tried re-installing bash-3.2.3-5, I tried r

Cron and find

Hi, I have a problem getting a find command which works fine on the command line to work when run via cron. The command is: 4 10 * * 1-5 find /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4//Bridge/DataFeed/deploy//quotefeed/logs -type f -name stdout.log\.* -mtime +2 > /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4/Bridge/DataFeed/deploy/bin/te

Re: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Loic Grenie on 11/14/2006 4:12 AM: >The subjects says it all: when a process has a large memory space, > a popen() triggers a long disk thrashing. The result can clearly be > seen iwth the allegated cygtharsh program (running with

Re: Cron and find

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 4 10 * * 1-5 find > /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4//Bridge/DataFeed/deploy//quotefeed/logs > -type f -name stdout.log\.* -mtime +2 > > /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4/Bridge/DataFeed/deploy/bin/testfind.log The need for quoting the argument to -name is to keep the shell from expanding g

Re: The newer version of Bash (Maybe after 3.1.6) brings something wrong for the executive operator `(backquote) in Makefile

Also, I would applogized here thar for submit questions without reading the release annoucement first. I reply it for any latter reference. Regards, Zhenghui Zhou 2006/11/14, Zhenghui Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks, Zhenghui Zhou 2006/11/14, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 14 November

RE: The newer version of Bash (Maybe after 3.1.6) brings something wrong for the executive operator `(backquote) in Makefile

On 14 November 2006 07:40, Zhenghui Zhou wrote: > When execute makefile through make command, any compile line contains > the executive operator `(backquote), likes `pkg-config --cflags > gtk+-2.0`, would result in a compile error, reported by gcc/g++, which > said ": No such file or directory". >

Re: "Bash Here..." menu option "howto" reg-entry

Linda Walsh wrote: Yes...it requires installing a separate executable program. This "add bash prompt" requires no 3rd party binary and uses programs already included in the cygwin base package. The installable program also has a bug in that it invokes each shell window as a separate user login,

Re: "Bash Here..." menu option "howto" reg-entry

Yes...it requires installing a separate executable program. This "add bash prompt" requires no 3rd party binary and uses programs already included in the cygwin base package. The installable program also has a bug in that it invokes each shell window as a separate user login, breaking the normal

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1

I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. This is a bug fix release. Only one minor functional change has been made since 1.5.21-1. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" lin

Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()

The subjects says it all: when a process has a large memory space, a popen() triggers a long disk thrashing. The result can clearly be seen iwth the allegated cygtharsh program (running with 1GB of memory, change the size of the malloc to roughly half your memory size): % ./cygthrash 0.

Re: The newer version of Bash (Maybe after 3.1.6) brings something wrong for the executive operator `(backquote) in Makefile

Thanks, Zhenghui Zhou 2006/11/14, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 14 November 2006 07:40, Zhenghui Zhou wrote: > When execute makefile through make command, any compile line contains > the executive operator `(backquote), likes `pkg-config --cflags > gtk+-2.0`, would result in a compile error

RE: ld: cannot perform PE operations on not PE files ...

On 14 November 2006 09:58, Salvatore D'Angelo wrote: > In the Dave solution I noticed the size of final image is 528 instead of > 512 (the size of the bootsector) as in Linux. Why? Seems like your bootsect.out ended up containing __CTOR_LIST__ and __DTOR_LIST__. Are you /absolutely/ sure you

Re: ld: cannot perform PE operations on not PE files ...

Brian and Dave, thank for your answer. I will try both solutions. It seems to me that if I install binutils-cross, then I could use the same Makefile for Linux and CygWin. The only change should be LD=... AS=... I tried to install this package from Internet setup, but I do not find it. I se

RE: mount usb drive for all user

> -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:28 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: mount usb drive for all user > > On Oct 16 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After the USB-Drive is connected I could cd to the root > directory of > > th