Re: Get cygwin X startup window console in notification area?

2009-11-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/10/2009 05:02 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: Dear cygcin community -- Here's a little thing that's been bugging me a long time but that I've not been able to figure out. I start X under cygwin using a Windows shortcut to C;\cygwin\bin\bash.exe where I have edited the target to add -login -c "/usr/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: clamav-0.95.3-1

2009-11-10 Thread Reini Urban
I've made a new version of 'clamav' available for installation, including, libclamav6, libclamav-devel, clamav-db. This is a bugfix release recommended for all users. This update is only available for the Cygwin 1.7 beta. Project description: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit designed espe

Re: getfacl returns 0 if no file found

2009-11-10 Thread aputerguy
Corinnna writes: > 2 (solaris). Since getfacl is based on the Solaris tool, I'll implement > that return code. 1 is returned for usage errors. Works for me - as long as I can trap it -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/getfacl-returns-0-if-no-file-found-tp26287360p26291764

5.8.0 fails to compile on cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread Terrence Brannon
error was: pl-prims.c: In function `pl_collation_key2_va': pl-prims.c:3314: error: `__PL_ld' undeclared (first use in this function) pl-prims.c:3314: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once pl-prims.c:3314: error: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [pl-prims.o] Error 1

Re: find Performance extremly slow

2009-11-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:09:30PM +0100, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: >* On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:04:59AM -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I knew we shouldn't have put all of those "sleep(5)"s in find.exe... > >You mean, something like a speedup loop? > > http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Sp

Re: find Performance extremly slow

2009-11-10 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
* On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:04:59AM -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote: > I knew we shouldn't have put all of those "sleep(5)"s in find.exe... You mean, something like a speedup loop? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx SCNR, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis

Re: getfacl returns 0 if no file found

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 10:07, aputerguy wrote: > > This is inconsistent with Linux treatment - is that what we want? > Because it would be good to be able to trap this as an error. > > $ getfacl sfdsfdsfdsf > getfacl: sfdsfdsfdsf: No such file or directory > $ echo $? > 0 (cygwin) > 1 (linux) 2 (solaris).

Re: SWI Prolog version is 1 year old

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 17:59, Terrence Brannon wrote: > I would be willing to contribute an updated version of SWI Prolog. > > The current Cygwin version is 5.6.* but the stable release is 5.8.0. I'd be glad if you would take over maintainership for this package. Please go ahead, if possible with a Cygwin 1.7

Re: console enhancements: mouse events

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 17:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > I had not expected you to take action on this issue so soon: > >- Don't create ESC sequences for ALT-key keypresses if key translates > > into a multibyte sequence. This avoids stray bytes in input when > > pressing for instance

getfacl returns 0 if no file found

2009-11-10 Thread aputerguy
This is inconsistent with Linux treatment - is that what we want? Because it would be good to be able to trap this as an error. $ getfacl sfdsfdsfdsf getfacl: sfdsfdsfdsf: No such file or directory $ echo $? 0 (cygwin) 1 (linux) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/getfacl-re

SWI Prolog version is 1 year old

2009-11-10 Thread Terrence Brannon
I would be willing to contribute an updated version of SWI Prolog. The current Cygwin version is 5.6.* but the stable release is 5.8.0. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Uns

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-64

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 11:21, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Bugfixes: > > = > > > > - Fix a regression in cygserver which made it non-functional. > > > > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cyg

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-64

2009-11-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Bugfixes: > = > > - Fix a regression in cygserver which made it non-functional. > > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer                                mailto

Re: console enhancements: mouse events

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: - Pressing something like Alt-ö on a German keyboard leaves an illegal UTF-8 sequence (the second byte of the respective sequence) in input, apparently because Alt-0xC3 is handled somehow. Don't know, though, whether this is a cygwin console issue or maybe a

Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 07:52, aputerguy wrote: > Corinna Vinschen-2 writes: > > On Nov 10 07:22, aputerguy wrote: > > > I was unaware of that "feature" > > > However, after turning it off, > > > Don't do that. There's more to this user right than you see at first > > sight. A lot of stuff might not work an

Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread aputerguy
Corinna Vinschen-2 writes: > On Nov 10 07:22, aputerguy wrote: > > I was unaware of that "feature" > > However, after turning it off, > Don't do that. There's more to this user right than you see at first > sight. A lot of stuff might not work anymore as you expected in Windows. Hmmm... eve

Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread aputerguy
Similarly, 'cd' seems to return a different error message on cygwin vs. Linux when looking at such subdirectories: $cd dir1 bash: cd: /root/dog: Permission denied [both cygwin & linux] $ cd dir1/ bash: cd: /dir1/: Permission denied [linux] bash: cd: dir1/: Not a directory Am I missing something

Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 07:22, aputerguy wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen-2 writes: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bypass%20traverse%20checking%22 > > I was unaware of that "feature" > However, after turning it off, Don't do that. There's more to this user right than you see at first sight. A lot of stu

Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread aputerguy
Corinna Vinschen-2 writes: > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bypass%20traverse%20checking%22 I was unaware of that "feature" However, after turning it off, it still seems that cygwin 'ls' gives a different response than *nix 'ls' to a file in the subtree of a directory that is "non-traversable

Re: find Performance extremly slow

2009-11-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Grundmann, Christian wrote: >Hi, > >the Performance of the find.exe is very very slow in comparison to other Tools >like cygwin > >If i use MKS Toolkit the Search "find WINDOWS -name *.dll" >Finished in 3,5 seconds > >If I use Cygwin the Search >Finished i

Re: Finding junction points in cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:30:45PM -0800, aputerguy wrote: > >Christopher Faylor writes >> It's not clear whom you are expecting to prepare this comprehensive >> list. For Cygwin we clearly want you to use our symlinks. It's a >> bonus that Corinna has implemented any functionality for anything >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] NEW: {libassuan/libassuan-devel}-1.0.5-2

2009-11-10 Thread Charles Wilson
libassuan is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME and a few other packages. It is currently not intended to be used as a shared library. This version does not provide libassuan-pth because GNU Pth on cygwin does not support clients which use fork. An IPC library, by definition, involves clients

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] NEW: {pinentry/pinentry-gtk2/pinentry-qt3}-0.7.6-2

2009-11-10 Thread Charles Wilson
pinentry is a collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol as described by the aegypten project; see http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/ for details. pinentry provides implementations for different windowing toolkits: curses (non-GUI terminal mode), GTK+ 1.2, G

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-64

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-64. Changes in relation to 1.7.0-63: - Just as Linux doesn't find "foo.so" when calling dlopen("foo"), Cygwin's dlopen will not find "foo.dll" anymore. Bugfixes: = - Fix a regression in

Re: Possible permissions problem

2009-11-10 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Lilja wrote: > I wanted to go through the tutorial for the Alignment API > (http://alignapi.gforge.inria.fr/tutorial/tutorial1/index.html), so I > downloaded alignapi-3.6.zip (http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=117) > and unpacked it using a combination of WinRAR and Directory Opus. Surel

Possible permissions problem

2009-11-10 Thread Eric Lilja
I wanted to go through the tutorial for the Alignment API (http://alignapi.gforge.inria.fr/tutorial/tutorial1/index.html), so I downloaded alignapi-3.6.zip (http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=117) and unpacked it using a combination of WinRAR and Directory Opus. I am logged in as a domain use

Get cygwin X startup window console in notification area?

2009-11-10 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear cygcin community -- Here's a little thing that's been bugging me a long time but that I've not been able to figure out. I start X under cygwin using a Windows shortcut to C;\cygwin\bin\bash.exe where I have edited the target to add -login -c "/usr/bin/startx -- -unixkill -clipboard -multimo

find Performance extremly slow

2009-11-10 Thread Grundmann, Christian
Hi, the Performance of the find.exe is very very slow in comparison to other Tools like cygwin If i use MKS Toolkit the Search "find WINDOWS -name *.dll" Finished in 3,5 seconds If I use Cygwin the Search Finished in 7,8 seconds In even bigger Trees the Performance goes to 3 Times slower Thx

Re: Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 10 00:44, aputerguy wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. It's Windows. > But I find the following differences between *nix and cygwin on access > permissions of 'ls' > > Test case: > > $ mkdir -p dir1/dir2 > $ chmod 700 dir1 > > > > $ ls -d dir1 > dir1 [both Linux & C

Re: Broken autoconf mmap test (was Re: 1.7] BUG - GREP slows to a crawl with large number of matches on a single file)

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 9 21:14, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 11/9/2009 7:05 AM: > > This part of the testcase > > > > data2 = (char *) malloc (2 * pagesize); > > if (!data2) > > return 1; > > data2 += (pagesize - ((long int) d

Differences between 'ls' permissions *nix vs cygwin

2009-11-10 Thread aputerguy
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. But I find the following differences between *nix and cygwin on access permissions of 'ls' Test case: $ mkdir -p dir1/dir2 $ chmod 700 dir1 $ ls -d dir1 dir1 [both Linux & Cygwin] $ ls dir1 ls: cannot open directory dir1 Permission denied [both

Re: NTFS Symlinks (reparse point) redux

2009-11-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 9 22:18, Linda Walsh wrote: > Anyone know what happens under the included POSIX subsystem in > Vista (and I assume Win7), when it creates symlinks? I can't imagine > they use ".lnk" file extensions -- but if they use "reparse point" links, > I'd think they'd almost have to store posi