Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

2007-11-26 Thread E.Baud
In fact, as I wrote it in previous message: - I'm not concerned about cygwin home/install location, but more with the program I wrote (that generates files and subdirectories), compiled with gcc/cygwin, and that run over images directories (most of the time under Desktop directories). In that case

Re: weird samba problems, latest cygwin, samba 3.0.25b-4.2

2007-11-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
jeffunit wrote: I built a fileserver running mandriva linux 2008 and samba 3.0.25b-4.2 After copying lots of files there, I decided to run cygwin 'diff -r' to be sure they really got copied ok. I ran into problems. Here is what I know. For example, to copy the emacs-22.1 source tree to my serv

Re: Why do file permissions change after editing a file with vim?

2007-11-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Ross Jordan wrote: It would seem Larry Hall (Cygwin), on Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:22:56PM -0500, wrote: Ross Jordan wrote: When I modify files with cygwin's vim, they become inaccessible. It seems the permissions are getting changed when I save the file. Any idea why this is happening? This do

Re: Why do file permissions change after editing a file with vim?

2007-11-26 Thread Ross Jordan
It would seem Larry Hall (Cygwin), on Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:22:56PM -0500, wrote: > Ross Jordan wrote: >> When I modify files with cygwin's vim, they become inaccessible. It seems >> the >> permissions are getting changed when I save the file. Any idea why this is >> happening? This does not ha

weird samba problems, latest cygwin, samba 3.0.25b-4.2

2007-11-26 Thread jeffunit
I built a fileserver running mandriva linux 2008 and samba 3.0.25b-4.2 After copying lots of files there, I decided to run cygwin 'diff -r' to be sure they really got copied ok. I ran into problems. Here is what I know. For example, to copy the emacs-22.1 source tree to my server, I use the comma

Re: New to cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Tomasz Jankowski wrote: I'm completely new to cygwin (and generally to programming for the MS Windows too). I'm working on a library and I need to use some socket API in it. I decided to prepare port for win32, but it's much harder, that I thought. the basic socket API of Windows and cygw

Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Peter Novak
Hi Mariusz, On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:22:41PM -0800, Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: > Microsoft's command 'dir /x' does that, for example. cygpath can perhaps help you (check man cygpath, or cygpath --help). For example executing: $ cygpath -d /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/ yields: c

Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Mariusz Wodzicki
Corinna! I would love to help you but I am not competent! What about my other question: how does one find the "short" name of file(s) and folder(s) in cygwin? Microsoft's command 'dir /x' does that, for example. Regards, Mariusz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

2007-11-26 Thread Matthew Persico
On Nov 23, 2007 7:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Move your Cygwin home directory outside of the C:/Users tree. There's > no reason to keep the Cygwin home directory in this tree. I'm using > C:/cygwin/home/corinna and/or C:/home/corinna for years and I haven't > had

RE: cygwin compliation crash when uninstalling the old version of bash

2007-11-26 Thread Ian Puleston
> So, looks like setup wrote the header and then bombed writing the > rest of > the file. Interesting... do you remember setup crashing (in a > different way) on the/a *previous* run before you first saw this > problem? > > cheers, > DaveK I just hit the same problem, and the sam

Re: New to cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Tomasz Jankowski
One more question, does anyone tried to build sctplib using cygwin? Here is link to page with source code I'm talking about: http://www.sctp.de/sctp-download.html The most important for me is package named 'socketapi', because it provides API documented in set of RFC documents about SCTP protocol

RE: New to cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 November 2007 17:35, Tomasz Jankowski wrote: > 1. I found, that functions like sendmsg and recvmsg are available in > cygwin, is it true? Yep. > 2. What about IPv6, is it available in cygwin? Nope, not yet, but it's under active development at the moment. > 3. Does cygwin in some way

New to cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Tomasz Jankowski
Hello! I'm completely new to cygwin (and generally to programming for the MS Windows too). I'm working on a library and I need to use some socket API in it. I decided to prepare port for win32, but it's much harder, that I thought. I found, that cygwin can make my life easier, especially a DLL pro

RE: Select-all Vista install fails?

2007-11-26 Thread Peter Klavins
> > So my question is this: Is Cygwin supposed to install fully on Vista from > > an initial All-package-selection? > > Yes. Rats. I was hoping for an answer like "Installation on Vista is a two- step process, first complete an installation with the default package selections and make your init

Re: [Fwd: sshd display]

2007-11-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 26, 2007 10:56 AM, Roger Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please forgive my silence and I really do appreciate your attention to my > problem. > I originally posted my question on the cygwin-apps list and at Corinna's > suggestion I > posted it on this list without realizing that I was n

Re: [Fwd: sshd display]

2007-11-26 Thread Roger Wells
Please forgive my silence and I really do appreciate your attention to my problem. I originally posted my question on the cygwin-apps list and at Corinna's suggestion I posted it on this list without realizing that I was not subscribed. I only now have seen your responses as I searched the arch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.27-2.27.48-3

2007-11-26 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the unison2.27 package is available in the Cygwin distribution. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then

RE: Bash fails on BerkeleyDB configure

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 November 2007 11:53, Howard Chu wrote: [ Howard, it's not convention to Cc: the poster when replying on the Cygwin list, but since I directed you here from the Gcc list where it is the SOP, please let me know if you have a preference either way. ] > if test $ac_cv_type_u_int8_t = yes; then

Bash fails on BerkeleyDB configure

2007-11-26 Thread Howard Chu
I ran into this problem while trying to run the BerkeleyDB 4.6.21 configure script with current Cygwin installed on a Windows64 machine. (Windows 2003 Server SP2 x86_64, using the Cygwin build of the x86_64-pc-mingw32 compiler from the mingw-64 project). The script fails on a case statement. P

Re: Extended attribute support - xattr.h

2007-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 16:05, Rob Bosch wrote: > Are extended attributes supported under cygwin? My development environment > keeps returning a failure when attempting to use extended attributes in > rsync when running configure. No, Cygwin does not support EAs using the (non-standard) functions from xattr.h.

Re: utf-8 and cygwin

2007-11-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 25 02:46, Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: > I would like to reopen the discussion about utf-8 support in cygwin. I'd like to close it again. I'm working on converting Cygwin's path handling to use NT's unicode functions. Given that there's practically no coding help from anybody, this will take m

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openldap-2.3.39-1/libopenldap2_3_0-2.3.39-1/openldap-devel-2.3.39-1

2007-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'openldap/libopenldap2_3_0/openldap-devel' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol clients, servers and libraries. CYGWIN NEWS: o Routine update OpenLDAP NEWS = OpenLDAP 2.3.39 Re

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnubg-0.16-1

2007-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gnubg' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A backgammon player and analysis tool. CYGWIN NEWS: o Switched to cygport build framework gnubg NEWS == * Changes in GNU Backgammon 0.16-0.15 ** /usr/share/doc/gnubg-0.16/Ch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tzcode-2007h-1

2007-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'tzcode/tzdata' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: The time zone package CYGWIN NEWS: * Update to latest upstream release tzcode/tzdata NEWS == * Sorry no changelog available. You have to do the diff yourself