Re: 1.5.25: cygwin executeables are crashing from time to time (Windows 2003 Server Ver 5.2 Build 3790 Service Pack )

2009-04-29 Thread Stefan Walter
Mark Geisert schrieb: Stefan Walter writes: Attached now the cygcheck.out. Maybe someone can give me now a hint for the crashes. Additional: There is no Antivirus as well as Firewall running on the System. [...] Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Apr 14 11:0

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.3.10-1

2009-04-29 Thread Andy Koppe
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Its terminal emulation is largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server to be running. It is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. This update fixes a couple

Weird problem when opening MSWORD docs via SSH session to Cygwin

2009-04-29 Thread Perry Ng
Hi All. I've been trying to get Cygwin to open up a MSWORD document via a vbs using cscript but have struck a weird problem when attempting to do so. I've created a VBS, it opens the word document and prints it. Using Cscript + vbs, it works fine from the Cygwin shell, However The vbs fails to

Re: Can cygwin boot faster?

2009-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lenik wrote: I feel it has been slightly faster in cygwin-1.7 than cygwin-1.6. But it is still very slow compared to msys-1.10. What does cygwin indeed execute when start up? Is it loaded too much, for example the network libraries? I noticed that paths leading with two slashes '//', which is

Can cygwin boot faster?

2009-04-29 Thread Lenik
I feel it has been slightly faster in cygwin-1.7 than cygwin-1.6. But it is still very slow compared to msys-1.10. What does cygwin indeed execute when start up? Is it loaded too much, for example the network libraries? I noticed that paths leading with two slashes '//', which is often created

telnet missing windows path

2009-04-29 Thread dev spm
Hi. i have a problem with the shell missing missing the windows path when teleting into systems running the cygwin telnet server (run via xinetd) on Win2003 servers. if i open up a local cygwin shell on the system i get the following path: PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdr

Re: 1.5.25: Intermittent hangs or network issues

2009-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jim Marshall wrote: Jim Marshall wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Jim Marshall wrote: I do not have any firewall software running, Potential app conflicts: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named file. Do you possibly suffer from the Cisco VPN client software that come

Re: 1.5.25: Intermittent hangs or network issues

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Jim Marshall wrote: I do not have any firewall software running, Potential app conflicts: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named file. Do you possibly suffer from the Cisco VPN client software that comes with a built-in ve

Re: 1.5.25: Intermittent hangs or network issues

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Marshall
Dave Korn wrote: Jim Marshall wrote: I do not have any firewall software running, Potential app conflicts: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named file. Do you possibly suffer from the Cisco VPN client software that comes with a built-in version of the core ZA fi

Re: Convert Cygwin .a library to Windows .lib

2009-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Olumide wrote: Hello, I'm aware this question has been asked before (I googled), but found no satisfactory answer. I've just compiled a Unix library (to *.a) in Cygwin and I would like to convert it into a .lib file that I can link with the Visual Studio toolchain. If you compiled it as a s

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
William Sutton On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM, William Sutton Let's try this one again, and maybe we can be civil instead of condescending and insulting? Ahh. You must be new here. :) I've been using Cygwin for ~ 5 years and monitoring the list

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM, William Sutton > Let's try this one again, and maybe we can be civil instead of > condescending and insulting? Ahh. You must be new here. :) This has come up before; an archive search might save some repetition. But if I understand the argument properly, it's

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
Let's try this one again, and maybe we can be civil instead of condescending and insulting? There are certain expectations of UNIX and UNIX-alike environments, particularly core commands. When I move from Solaris to AIX to HP-UX to Linux to Cygwin, I expect commands to perform in fairly simil

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:52:27AM -0400, William Sutton wrote: >That's a nice answer for a command that works, but, speaking for myself >and a lot of other people who use cygwin for the UNIX-like utilities >(like the OP), we shouldn't have to remember one-off command names to Maybe you and your m

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
That's a nice answer for a command that works, but, speaking for myself and a lot of other people who use cygwin for the UNIX-like utilities (like the OP), we shouldn't have to remember one-off command names to get the same functionality we're used to in *NIX. Perhaps ps could be fixed to incl

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:11:29AM +0200, jurriaan wrote: >If I run execute some sh -c "sleep 180" & commands on cygwin >(CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) and then run ps -ef, I get a lot of > >/usr/bin/sh > >processes. > >If I run ps -ef on my linux (2.6.25.17), I get > >sh -c sleep 180 >sh -c slee

Re: Convert Cygwin .a library to Windows .lib

2009-04-29 Thread Olumide
I'm aware this question has been asked before (I googled), but found no satisfactory answer. I've just compiled a Unix library (to *.a) in Cygwin and I would like to convert it into a .lib file that I can link with the Visual Studio toolchain. Have you tried to rename it? I'm aware of that opt

Re: 1.5.25-15: git 1.6.1.2: fatal error during initial commit under Win98SE

2009-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
Alexey Lyubimov yahoo.com> writes: > > $ git commit -m "initial revision" > fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Permission denied > > Can anybody help me (or, at least, explain)? Your problem is that Win98 is unsupported by Microsoft, and soon to be unsupported by cygwin. I built the cygwin p

1.5.25-15: git 1.6.1.2: fatal error during initial commit under Win98SE

2009-04-29 Thread Alexey Lyubimov
$ git commit -m "initial revision" fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Permission denied Can anybody help me (or, at least, explain)? -- Thank you cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: [1.7] Question: running from a portable drive

2009-04-29 Thread Fergus
> I do the exact same thing, much to the consternation of others on the list. > I ended up with a batch file to start Cygwin that figures out which drive its running on and then it writes out a custom /etc/fstab based on that drive letter. > It's certainly not the most elegant way of doing t

Re: [1.7] Question: running from a portable drive

2009-04-29 Thread Ralph Hempel
Fergus wrote: I run both [1.5] and [1.7] off portable drives plugged into whatever host machine I'm using. Can I write /etc/fstab more generally so that [1.7], like [1.5], can be made to run off a portable drive without needing to specify (or even know) the driveletter allocated by the host

Re: GCC 4.4.0 - Can't activate threading support

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Korn
Casull wrote: > > What can be done to add the pthread_mutex_timedlock function to the pthread > implementation of cygwin ? http://cygwin.com/contrib.html > And what does the PTC achronyme mean ? :) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC :) cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: GCC 4.4.0 - Can't activate threading support

2009-04-29 Thread Casull
What can be done to add the pthread_mutex_timedlock function to the pthread implementation of cygwin ? And what does the PTC achronyme mean ? :) Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > Dave Korn wrote: >> Casull wrote: >>> The GCC 4.4 implementation of std::thread is guarded by the >>> following preprocessing

Re: Problem with git on Cygwin 1.7

2009-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Mikushkin on 4/29/2009 4:01 AM: > Hello! > > When I try to fetch the branch with git (git 1.6.2.4, Cygwin 1.7) I get this: git 1.6.2.4-1, or git 1.6.2.4-2? If the former, then upgrade. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for

Re: kerberos tools (kinit, etc) and kerberos-aware openssh in cygwin?

2009-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.04.2009, 18:23 Uhr, schrieb Chris Green : Hi, I have searched through the main mailing list archives and not come up with anything that seems even partially relevant except perhaps a recent email regarding LSA which did not seem to address my exact question. Is it possible for Cygwin to i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-20050409-11

2009-04-29 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/4/29 Phil Betts: > Charles Wilson wrote: >> * Add -uas (--unixAltSpace) option to bypass Win32 handling >>   of Alt-Space key combination, and allow client (e.g. >>   Emacs) to handle it instead. > > Thanks for this Chuck. > > I can't see what in my previous post got you so worked up The word

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-20050409-11

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Betts
Charles Wilson wrote: > * Add -uas (--unixAltSpace) option to bypass Win32 handling > of Alt-Space key combination, and allow client (e.g. > Emacs) to handle it instead. Thanks for this Chuck. I can't see what in my previous post got you so worked up, and was a bit stung by your response. I

Re: [1.7] Question: running from a portable drive

2009-04-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Fergus (Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:04:48 +0100) > I run both [1.5] and [1.7] off portable drives plugged into whatever > host machine I'm using. After what originally took a lot of messing > about involving DOS variables like %CD% and %CWD% and DOS startup batch > files, [1.5] is successfully mounted

[1.7] Question: running from a portable drive

2009-04-29 Thread Fergus
I run both [1.5] and [1.7] off portable drives plugged into whatever host machine I'm using. After what originally took a lot of messing about involving DOS variables like %CD% and %CWD% and DOS startup batch files, [1.5] is successfully mounted at each use and will run successfully without nee

Problem with git on Cygwin 1.7

2009-04-29 Thread Igor Mikushkin
Hello! When I try to fetch the branch with git (git 1.6.2.4, Cygwin 1.7) I get this: git: 'index-pack' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'. fatal: index-pack failed Any known workarounds? Thanks, Igor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: GCC 4.4.0 - Can't activate threading support

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > Casull wrote: >> The GCC 4.4 implementation of std::thread is guarded by the >> following preprocessing directive: >> >>#if defined(_GLIBCXX_HAS_GTHREADS) && >> defined(_GLIBCXX_USE_C99_STDINT_TR1) >> >> When looking at the bits/c++config.h, _GLIBCXX_USE_C99_STDINT_TR1 is def

Re: GCC 4.4.0 - Can't activate threading support

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Korn
Casull wrote: > I am basically trying to take advantage > of the C++0x implementation provided by GCC 4.4 through the header > for example. The GCC 4.4 implementation of std::thread is guarded by the > following preprocessing directive: > >#if defined(_GLIBCXX_HAS_GTHREADS) && > defined(_GLI

Installing beta (1.7) version parallel to current one

2009-04-29 Thread Igor Mikushkin
Hello all! I'm trying to install beta cygwin version parallel to the current one. I chose the different directory to install in and different one to store downloaded packages. Installer shows me that I have several installed packages even at first run. They are the packages from my current install

Re: GCC 4.4.0 - Can't activate threading support

2009-04-29 Thread Casull
Well actually, maybe saying that threading isn't activated is not the correct way to describe my problem. I am basically trying to take advantage of the C++0x implementation provided by GCC 4.4 through the header for example. The GCC 4.4 implementation of std::thread is guarded by the following

Re: GCC 4.4.0 - Can't activate threading support

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Korn
Casull wrote: > I've been trying to build GCC 4.4.0 for use with cygwin, and despite the > fact that the build succeeds, I can't seem to activate threading even when > supplying the --enable-threads=posix configure option. What am I doing wrong > in order to activate thread support in gcc for cygw

Cygwin default path, or system-wide environment?

2009-04-29 Thread Lenik
Here I means when running bash or other shell in non-interactive mode, how can I set up environment variables, and without touch the Win32 System Environment? Default PATH, for example. When PATH variable isn't set, there is a default PATH. But if you set the PATH variable, the default PAT

ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread jurriaan
If I run execute some sh -c "sleep 180" & commands on cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) and then run ps -ef, I get a lot of /usr/bin/sh processes. If I run ps -ef on my linux (2.6.25.17), I get sh -c sleep 180 sh -c sleep 180 sh -c sleep 180 Is there any way to get the commandline argume

GCC 4.4.0 - Can't activate threading support

2009-04-29 Thread Casull
Hi All, I've been trying to build GCC 4.4.0 for use with cygwin, and despite the fact that the build succeeds, I can't seem to activate threading even when supplying the --enable-threads=posix configure option. What am I doing wrong in order to activate thread support in gcc for cygwin ? Thanks,