Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/26/2006, Linda Walsh wrote: The excerpt below is a mere subset of the response but is the only one that raises a point that we haven't already been through at least once in this thread so I wanted to respond to it. Not everyone can be a developer on every piece of software they use. Y

Re: bashdb-3.1-0.07 cygwin bashdb script not quite right

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to R. Bernstein on 12/26/2006 10:36 AM: > I updated cygwin the other day and noticed bashdb-3.1-0.07 was > updated. Thanks. > > There is one small problem. If you run "bashdb --help" you'll get an error. > > I should have been more explicit

Re: Opening a file with a Windows App which is not in Windows File Association

2006-12-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
Thanks for the info. I use zsh suffix aliases, so I don't need to worry about "MS Windows" file associations. If you use zsh and set suffix aliases in your zsh startup file, such as ~/.zshenv Then all you have to do to view you file is $ logo.jpg #zsh will see the jpg suffix and find the appli

Re: Newbee problem at compile mtx scsi changer tool

2006-12-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Pierre Bernhardt wrote: > checking for scsi/scsi.h... no > checking for scsi/scsi_ioctl.h... no > checking for scsi/sg.h... no > > I think the problem comes from here... > > [...] > > Could anybody help me to identify the missing or problem? You already f

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: So you are saying Cygwin doesn't properly emulate the POSIX fork semantics. I don't know that this is "critically" important for consideration in this issue. It is. This is the principle of least surprise for the end user. --- Least surprise for "which" end u

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:01:53AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Some people asked me for a "patch". I find that laughable -- I'm sure >it would go the way of the UTF-8 patch that was proposed with code >several months back. The patch would quietly (or noisily) be killed on >the cygwin-patches list

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Linda Walsh wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > > I believe there is a critical element you have missed. > > In order to perform the rather miraculous emulation of fork(), Cygwin > > needs to reload all the same DLLs that are operating in one process into > > another newly created p

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Max Bowsher wrote: I believe there is a critical element you have missed. In order to perform the rather miraculous emulation of fork(), Cygwin needs to reload all the same DLLs that are operating in one process into another newly created process. Updating the DLL files on disk whilst processes a

Re: rsyncd prevents computer to enter Standby mode on XP

2006-12-26 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, I am running Cygwin on a machine running Windows XP Pro. I have noticed that if rsync service is running, the laptop does not go into standby mode. If I set the timeout for the machine to enter standby mode to 1 min, then all is fine. But anything larger than this does not

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 02:38:03PM +, Max Bowsher wrote: >Linda Walsh wrote: >>The fix I proposed has nothing to do with the cygwin1.dll. As has >> been covered previously, since cygwin1.dll and a few other libs are >> part of the cygwin "kernel", special handling may be needed to upgrade

Re: Problems installing/uninstalling

2006-12-26 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 12/26/06, Paul Thompson wrote: I have had recently considerable problems both installing and uninstalling cygwin. XP-pro box Version: 2.510.2.2 1st try - downloaded all updates, and install from local disk Install stops dead and does not proceed at /etc/postinstall/01bash.bat After this,

Problems installing/uninstalling

2006-12-26 Thread Paul Thompson
I have had recently considerable problems both installing and uninstalling cygwin. XP-pro box Version: 2.510.2.2 1st try - downloaded all updates, and install from local disk Install stops dead and does not proceed at /etc/postinstall/01bash.bat After this, I attempted to uninstall the entir

Newbee problem at compile mtx scsi changer tool

2006-12-26 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Hello, I want to bring mtx to cygwin so I can use my changer from windows. I've download the source from ftp://ftp.badtux.net/pub/storage/mtx/mtx-1.2.18rel.tar.gz ./configure looks ok for me but possible without scsi: $ ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686

Re: bash crashes after update

2006-12-26 Thread Serge Skorokhodov
Hi, I uninstalled Outpost Firewall Pro 4 completely (just disabling loading it didn't work) and cygwin is live now! Thanks very much. -- The fish that is singing in Ucayaly river... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Linda Walsh wrote: >The fix I proposed has nothing to do with the cygwin1.dll. As has > been covered previously, since cygwin1.dll and a few other libs are > part of the cygwin "kernel", special handling may be needed to upgrade > those dll's. What can be fixed is the installation of .exe and

Fatal Error w/ cygwin 1-5-23-*

2006-12-26 Thread Brian Hassink
Hello all, I have an app that runs fine under 1-5-22-1, but has a fatal error (see below) when run under 1-5-23-1 or 1-5-23-2. I've done a complete reinstallation of 1-5-23-2 (and had tried a newer snapshot as well), but this has not resolved the problem. At this point, I'm not sure what to look

Re: bash crashes after update

2006-12-26 Thread Serge Skorokhodov
Well, from your cygcheck: > Path: C:\Program Files\Far > C:\WINDOWS\system32 > C:\WINDOWS > C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem > C:\WUsr\atit\ATI Control Panel > C:\usr\shared\Compuware\NMShared > C:\usr\shared\Compuware\ > C:\WUsr\Subversion\bin > C:\SFU\c

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Linda Walsh on 12/26/2006 4:14 AM: > >Just because something hasn't been tested on unprotected-mode windows > (95, 98, ME) doesn't mean something might not work. Then I will tell you - renaming in-use files on Windows 9x _does not wo

Re: bash crashes after update

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE; redirecting to the list. According to Serge Skorokhodov on 12/26/2006 3:42 AM: > Hi, > > I've attempted a clean default cygwin install and the error is the same. > > Error signature: > AppName: bash.exe AppVe

Re: Updated cygwin dlls cause unnecessary reboot on NT

2006-12-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/25/2006, Linda Walsh wrote: FWIW, I have replaced the libs like cygwin1.dll, cygintl?.dll... and such while cygwin is running and not had a catastrophe as one might have trying to overwrite/update the memory image of a kernel dynamically, so I don't think