Re: recent popen changes

2006-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:38:32PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >Any reason that cygwin can't support popen("echo hi", "rb") to force >binary pipe traffic, or conversely, popen("echo hi", "rt") to force >text pipe traffic? True, POSIX states that any characters after the >first can result in EINVAL, b

recent popen changes

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any reason that cygwin can't support popen("echo hi", "rb") to force binary pipe traffic, or conversely, popen("echo hi", "rt") to force text pipe traffic? True, POSIX states that any characters after the first can result in EINVAL, but now that cgf j

Re: Postinstall Problem with 01bash.bat

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Kenneth Evans, Jr. on 12/11/2006 8:52 AM: > Hi, > >> What do the following say? > >> $ ls -l /bin/sh.exe /bin/bash.exe >> $ bash --version >> $ sh --version > > C:\Documents and Settings\evans>ls -l /bin/sh.exe /bin/bash.exe > -rwxrwxrw

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-11 Thread ERIC HO
The command and out are as follows: /cygdrive/c/user $cmd /c cd c:\user The latest snapshot (2006-12-11) has the same problem. I went back to 1.5.22-1 release and the problem is fixed. Not sure which change causes this. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Schaap
ERIC HO wrote: /cygdrive/c/user $cmd /c pwd /cygdrive/c/user Hmm, I should have asked for $ cmd /c cd :-[ My cygcheck ouput are attached. Thanks Looks like you're running a pretty old Cygwin snapshot: Cygwin DLL version info: Build date: Thu Nov 30 10:51:28 EST 2006

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-11 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 12/11/06, ERIC HO wrote: I was able to use Windows Explorer to open the file by double clicking the file. I was able to use cygstart open the file with full path. The problem is with all file type. I can do a cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/ with no problem. The result from: strace cygstar

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Schaap
ERIC HO wrote: I was able to use Windows Explorer to open the file by double clicking the file. I was able to use cygstart open the file with full path. The problem is with all file type. I can do a cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/ with no problem. The result from: strace cygstart hello.txt |g

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-11 Thread ERIC HO
I was able to use Windows Explorer to open the file by double clicking the file. I was able to use cygstart open the file with full path. The problem is with all file type. I can do a cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/ with no problem. The result from: strace cygstart hello.txt |grep hello.txt is

Re: pcre, C++

2006-12-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave said: > This is most likely the passing-empty-strings-across-dll-boundaries > problem aka PR24196; would you care to install the experimental > gcc-3.4.4-2 and see if it fixes the problem? Why, yes, it does; thank you. (I shoulda remembered that...) Unfortunately, this is not a solution

Re: sh problems

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Rossi
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:50:01AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > Bob Rossi wrote: > > > I think that I have narrowed this down enough to say that this is a > > cygwin issue. Hopefully, I can get some advice on this list. If I run > > these commands in a dos window that I started nativly on the mac

Re: sh problems

2006-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:31:50PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: >I think that I have narrowed this down enough to say that this is a > >cygwin issue. Hopefully, I can get some advice on this list. If I run > >these commands in a dos

Re: sh problems

2006-12-11 Thread Brian Dessent
Bob Rossi wrote: > I think that I have narrowed this down enough to say that this is a > cygwin issue. Hopefully, I can get some advice on this list. If I run > these commands in a dos window that I started nativly on the machine, So, essentially, this boils down to "I'm running a non-Cygwin app

Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user

2006-12-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Tim Largy wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd? Yes. I'm attaching my /etc/passwd and /etc/group (after editing to protect the privacy of users). See anything unusual? The account that can't run Cygwin is called team-member. Nothing obviou

Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user

2006-12-11 Thread Tim Largy
Matthew Woehlke wrote: When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd? Yes. I'm attaching my /etc/passwd and /etc/group (after editing to protect the privacy of users). See anything unusual? The account that can't run Cygwin is called team-member. Tim passwd Description: Binary

sh problems

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Rossi
Hi, I think that I have narrowed this down enough to say that this is a

Re: errors trying to install cygwin on vista

2006-12-11 Thread Mike Knope
Well, I must be dumb cuz I tried everything and it still fails to complete the install. Always fails with "sed.exe has stopped working". I guess I'll just wait a while and see if something shows up in the future. It just will not install for me. Thanks, Mike On Dec 9 21:22, Mike Knope wrot

RE: pcre, C++

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 December 2006 15:35, Charles Wilson wrote: > A little digging shows that the problem occurs in pcrepp.cc (RE::Init): > > void RE::Init(const char* pat, const RE_Options* options) { > pattern_ = pat; <<< HERE > > where std::string pattern_, a member of class RE, is assigned the const > c

Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user

2006-12-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Tim Largy wrote: I am having trouble running Cygwin as user X (not the real user name) on a machine running Windows XP Professional SP2. [snip various attempts to find out what makes 'X' different] I'm out of ideas. How can running Cygwin be different for user X? What should I look at next? Wh

Re: 1.5.22-1: Problems with cygwin binaries execution on Windows 2003

2006-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Arseny Klimovsky wrote: Hello! I installed cygwin on my MS Windows 2003 and can't cope with problems during execution any exe file except cygcheck. After every execution I have something like this. Faulting application yes.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module cygwin1.dll, version 1005.22.0

RE: Postinstall Problem with 01bash.bat

2006-12-11 Thread Kenneth Evans, Jr.
Hi, > What do the following say? > $ ls -l /bin/sh.exe /bin/bash.exe > $ bash --version > $ sh --version C:\Documents and Settings\evans>ls -l /bin/sh.exe /bin/bash.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 evans Users 484352 Dec 6 08:17 /bin/bash.exe -rwxrwxrwx 1 evans None 451072 Feb 26 2006 /bin/sh.exe C:\Documen

RE: rxvt NOT RESPONDING when exiting

2006-12-11 Thread Rodrigo Medina
I forgot the, cygcheck output in the previous message RM Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Dec 11 11:20:31 2006 Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: . ~\bin c:\Documents and Settings\rmedina\My Documents\bin C:\cygwin\

rxvt NOT RESPONDING when exiting

2006-12-11 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, Lately rxvt does not exit properly. I think this a differen from the ghost bash process that has been reported. The behavior is similar for 20050409-2 and 20050409-3. Frequently (not always) when a rxtv window is closed with the exit command, the program hangs and never ends. In order to see w

pcre, C++

2006-12-11 Thread Charles Wilson
In version 6.0, the (upstream) pcre maintainer added a C++ wrapper contributed by Google. However, in pcre-6.7 (and going back all the way to 6.0), I can find no case where the C++ unittests pcre_scanner_unittest or pcrecpp_unittest actually pass; they always segfault on cygwin (gcc/g++ 3.4.4-1, b

1.5.22-1: Problems with cygwin binaries execution on Windows 2003

2006-12-11 Thread Arseny Klimovsky
Hello! I installed cygwin on my MS Windows 2003 and can't cope with problems during execution any exe file except cygcheck. After every execution I have something like this. Faulting application yes.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module cygwin1.dll, version 1005.22.0.0, fault address 0x3

Re: [Avail for test] cvs-1.11.22-1

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Charles Wilson on 12/8/2006 11:32 PM: > A new test version of cvs should hit the mirrors soon. I believe that > the "disappearing 'C'onflicts" problem described here: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01385.html Yep, this rele

Re: guile-1.8.1-3 problem

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
Jan Nieuwenhuizen xs4all.nl> writes: > > I'm trying to compile something that links to guile, but it isn't > > working with the latest (1.8.1-3) version. I get a message that > > guile-config is broken. > > Can you try if the version at > > http://lilypond.org/cygwin/release/guile Can you

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Schaap
ERIC HO wrote: Hi there, I've been using cygstart to start chm and pdf files with no problems until a few days ago. Now I'm getting The specified file was not found when using cygstart on a file. I updated a few the cygwin packages last week. Not sure whether this has something to do with it

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sharutils-4.6.3-1

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of sharutils, 4.6.3-1, is available, replacing 4.5.3-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new stable upstream release. It switches over to the cygport build framework, and maintains cygwin-specific patches from the previous release. Usi

Re: rm -r complains when using 20061130 snapshot or later

2006-12-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 11 05:28, Masatoshi Kimura wrote: > When I execute "rm -r" with cygwin1-20061130.dll or later, > rm complains about failing remove directory. > But it actually remove the directory. > This makes "make" utility unhappy. > cygwin1-20061127.dll or earlier works fine. > > $ mkdir test > > $ ls

Re: errors trying to install cygwin on vista

2006-12-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 21:22, Mike Knope wrote: > OK. I've looked thru the archives and I've even tried installing as the > "true" Administrator and all I get are errors either saying that sed.exe > stopped working when I try to run setup on Vista, or I get > install-info.exe stopped working if I try to rei

sshd on a Vista32 PC

2006-12-11 Thread Riccardo
After several years of smooth work with CYGWIN ssh/sshd on few WinXP boxes, I installed (as administrator) the last version of CYGWIN with ssh support on a "VISTA32 business" PC but I could not get it work. The CYGWIN sshd appear correctly on the services list but refuse tu run. Here is my sshd c

RE: can't download gcc source from cygwin ftp

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 December 2006 07:05, Domen Vrankar wrote: > I tried to download gcc source tar but all the packets are only 1 kb > large and don't contain anything. I tried to download from several > mirrors but I got the same result on all of them. I used > ftp->release->gcc. > Are the packages wrong or is