Re: who should own the /bin directory?

2007-10-24 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Jerome Fong < ha scritto: > I'm trying to login as another person, but using > "su" tells me I don't > have permissions to use bash. Using login gives me > errors about no home > directory and no permissions to use bash. su does not work. See FAQ chapter 4 > > thanks, regards __

Fwd: Unable to install pdftk

2007-10-24 Thread Santhosh Kumar Yedidi
Thanks Angelo I am able to install it. But where will I find the command. Because I found pdftk.exe to be in the same directory where I ran the Make command. Can you further help how to use to in cygwin terminal. Thanks Santhosh -- Forwarded message -- From: Angelo Graziosi <[

Re: Upgrade to git 1.5.3 broke git-commit

2007-10-24 Thread chris ortman
I'm not sure if posting my cygcheck output will be relevant because I don't want to upgrade git to 1.5.3 on this machine. I did manage to setup another machine though and the behaviour is the same using git 1.5.3.2 Something I noticed is that when using git 1.5.2 the path to COMMIT_EDITMSG shows

Re: "ls" much slower on Vista

2007-10-24 Thread Steven Hartland
Do you have any antivirus on the Vista machine? - Original Message - From: "John Cooper" Any ideas what might be causing the slowdown and how I might avoid it? This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the

Re: Replying to messages

2007-10-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Brad Bell wrote: > How does one reply to a message on cygwin.com when you do not have an > e-mail copy of the original message; i.e., just given the information in > the mailing list archive ? The web archive is meant for read-only reference, there is no direct way to reply. But this is a mailin

Replying to messages

2007-10-24 Thread Brad Bell
How does one reply to a message on cygwin.com when you do not have an e-mail copy of the original message; i.e., just given the information in the mailing list archive ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

Re: BUG REPORT: Cygwin, g++, -O2, static member function, std::string

2007-10-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:21:27PM -0700, Robert P. Goddard wrote: > This is a reply to the message Yo! Just reply to the message. You don't have to announce that you're doing it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

who should own the /bin directory?

2007-10-24 Thread Jerome Fong
I'm trying to login as another person, but using "su" tells me I don't have permissions to use bash. Using login gives me errors about no home directory and no permissions to use bash. I check the bin directory and I own all the files. Did I install cygwin incorrectly? who should own the cy

Re: BUG REPORT: Cygwin, g++, -O2, static member function, std::string

2007-10-24 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Can you post the bug{1,2}.cpp files? I would guess that its not a bug, but rather you are relying on an undefined order of static initialization that happens to do what you want sometimes but not others. It's impossible to say for sure without seeing the source files, though. Oh I see, you di

Re: BUG REPORT: Cygwin, g++, -O2, static member function, std::string

2007-10-24 Thread Robert P. Goddard
This is a reply to the message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/msg00509.html: The linker is supposed to resolve a function-local static variable into one exactly one instance, constructed on the first call, even if the function is expanded in-line from multiple compilation units. It seems

BUG REPORT: Cygwin, g++, -O2, static member function, std::string

2007-10-24 Thread Brad Bell
This is a reply to the message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/msg00508.html where the following request was made Can you post the bug{1,2}.cpp files ? Note that the original bug report is at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/msg00507.html I am attaching the requested fi

Re: BUG REPORT: Cygwin, g++, -O2, static member function, std::string

2007-10-24 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Brad Bell wrote: I seem to have run across a bug using g++ with -O2 under Cygwin. It has to do with using static class member functions and standard string. The bash shell script command ./bug.sh creates three files, compiles, links, and runs the result. I have run this command on severa

BUG REPORT: Cygwin, g++, -O2, static member function, std::string

2007-10-24 Thread Brad Bell
I seem to have run across a bug using g++ with -O2 under Cygwin. It has to do with using static class member functions and standard string. The bash shell script command ./bug.sh creates three files, compiles, links, and runs the result. I have run this command on several Cygwin syste

RE: weird behaviour of shell commands

2007-10-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 October 2007 17:07, Cyril Rutkowski wrote: > Hi, > > When executing chev.sh (a bad performance script that allows me to > reverse lines of a text file), the result (chev2.txt) should have a size > of 1565 bytes, that is the same size as chev.txt. But chev.txt is 2046 bytes! > The proble

Re: strange select() and recvfrom() behaviour

2007-10-24 Thread Marcell Missura
Hi, actually you were right, I was a bit too quick with my extract. It didn't contain an important line. I'm also sending out stuff through that socket. So here it goes, you can copy paste and compile this. #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include

Re: strange select() and recvfrom() behaviour

2007-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 17:12, Marcell Missura wrote: > Hello, > > I observed some strange behaviour on Windows when I was using a select() > and recvfrom() combination to implement a socket listening behaviour with > timeout. Here is an extract from a test program. > [...] > First of all, you might notice that

proftpd // 2nd transfer // Address already in use

2007-10-24 Thread Ma Dincht
Hello, I have a problem running proftpd (standalone mode) under cygwin on Windows XP. It seems that only one transfer at a time is working (active mode). If any user tries to start another LIST or transfer, it fails with error message: Failed binding to , port 20: Address already in use It happ

strange select() and recvfrom() behaviour

2007-10-24 Thread Marcell Missura
Hello, I observed some strange behaviour on Windows when I was using a select() and recvfrom() combination to implement a socket listening behaviour with timeout. Here is an extract from a test program. struct timeval tv; while(1) { tv.tv_sec = 0; tv.tv_usec = 0.001*100; // The ac

"ls" much slower on Vista

2007-10-24 Thread John Cooper
I've recently installed Cygwin 1.5.24-2 on Windows Vista and found that "ls" runs noticeably slower compared to WinXP or Win2K3 (same Cygwin version) despite my Vista machine being newer, faster and having far more memory (4Gb vs 1Gb on XP). The following numbers are from launching rxvt (from Sta

Re: Unable to install pdftk

2007-10-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Santhosh Kumar wrote: > I have got the pdftk package from its website. The when I tried to > install it shows error of java libs. Can any one help how to install > this package I downloaded the source from the Debian package 1.40 and built it with: make -f Makefile.Generic CXXFLAGS='-lgcj