Re: [1.7] Setup won't create local package directory?

2009-11-18 Thread Jason Spiro
Mark J. Reed gmail.com> writes: > > On "Cygwin Setup - Select Local Package Directory", it says "The > directory will be created if it does not already exist." But if I > type in the name of a new folder (whose parent folder exists), and I > get this error message: > > Could not change dir to

Cygwin 1.7 on win 2008 wierd behaviour with .sys files

2009-11-18 Thread Hrishikesh Date
I installed cygwin beta on win2008 R2 machine. Having a strange problem when copying files with 2 DOTs on $ touch a.sys.exe $ cp a.sys.exe a.sys cp: cannot create regular file `a.sys': File exists I double checked and there is no file named a.sys. -HD -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Cygwin 1.7 setup on Win7 fails with "Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use."

2009-11-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/18/2009 11:32 PM, Alexander Quinn wrote: When I try to install the latest Cygwin 1.7.0-64 beta on Windows 7 (x86 RTM Enterprise build 7600), it downloads correctly, but then I get the error "Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use." Previously, I was using Cygwin 1.5.25-14 on this m

Re: New package: lzip-1.8-1

2009-11-18 Thread JonY
On 11/17/2009 23:18, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: JonY sent the following at Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:36 AM Version 1.8-1 of "lzip" has been uploaded. lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with a user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports re

Cygwin 1.7 setup on Win7 fails with "Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use."

2009-11-18 Thread Alexander Quinn
When I try to install the latest Cygwin 1.7.0-64 beta on Windows 7 (x86 RTM Enterprise build 7600), it downloads correctly, but then I get the error "Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use." Previously, I was using Cygwin 1.5.25-14 on this machine. That installed perfectly the first ti

Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display the arguments to the processes?

2009-11-18 Thread Haojun Bao
Chris January writes: > > Install the procps package and then use the procps command. > You can also try WMIC which comes with Windows, on XP in my case. If you need for e.g., PID/PPID/CMDLINE, especially if you need see Windows native processes and if procps can't do that (I don't know if it ca

perl errors after a while on windows 7 / 2k8 r2

2009-11-18 Thread Steven Hartland
After a while of running one of our perl scripts errors with the following on windows 7 / 2k8 r2 3 [sig] perl 8296 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't create signal pipe, Win32 error 1 This is with cygwin:- CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 blade24 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin

1.7.1 release date?

2009-11-18 Thread Egerton, Jim
Was wondering if there any news on the 1.7.1 release data - beta page has: The official 1.7.1 release should go public in late October or early November 2009. Thanks! jim -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Problem with fcnlt F_GETLK command

2009-11-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 18 08:08, jmsplat101-cyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Hello, > > I've down loaded version 1.7 onto my Windows XP laptop (uname -a > reports CYGWIN_NT-5.1 XX 1.7.0(0.217/5/3) 2009-11-10 13:03 > i686 Cygwin) and I'm having some problems with the fcntl() function. > > I've written the foll

unzip failure in 1.5 and 1.6 building OpenJDK

2009-11-18 Thread Pete Brunet
I'm encountering unzip failures attempting to build the OpenJDK. I've tried with both 1.6 and 1.7. This happened on 1.6: ( cd c:/OpenJDK/jdk7/build/windows-i586-fastdebug/demo/applets/BarChart && /usr/bin/unzip -o src.zip && rm -f src.zip ) Archive: src.zip inflating: BarChart.java inflati

Problem with fcnlt F_GETLK command

2009-11-18 Thread jmsplat101-cygwin
Hello, I've down loaded version 1.7 onto my Windows XP laptop (uname -a reports CYGWIN_NT-5.1 XX 1.7.0(0.217/5/3) 2009-11-10 13:03 i686 Cygwin) and I'm having some problems with the fcntl() function. I've written the following sample to demonstrate the problem: #include #include #inc

Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display the arguments to the processes?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris January
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:21 -0800 (PST), "Larry W. Virden" wrote: > A developer has asked me to see if there is a way in Cygwin to get output > more similar to Solaris or other Unix system ps commands. > > He specifically needs to get information about a process, its pid, and the > argume

Re: msmtp is old

2009-11-18 Thread Gary .
"Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" wrote: >> On 18/11/2009 02:34, Gary . wrote: >> >> Is there any reason the supported msmtp version is back at 1.4.13, >> which is over two years old? > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.old-packages Yes. That's why I asked. -- Problem reports: http://

Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display the arguments to the processes?

2009-11-18 Thread Eliot Moss
Larry W. Virden wrote: A developer has asked me to see if there is a way in Cygwin to get output more similar to Solaris or other Unix system ps commands. He specifically needs to get information about a process, its pid, and the arguments passed to the process. When I try the various flags f

CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display the arguments to the processes?

2009-11-18 Thread Larry W. Virden
A developer has asked me to see if there is a way in Cygwin to get output more similar to Solaris or other Unix system ps commands. He specifically needs to get information about a process, its pid, and the arguments passed to the process. When I try the various flags for ps, I don't see any wh

Re: cygserver in cygwin 1.7.0-62 worked, but fails with seg fault in cygwin 1.7.0-63 and -64

2009-11-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 11:58, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 11/17/2009 11:24 AM, Tony Wallace wrote: > >My cygwin-1.7 installation has been running Apache2 with mod_perl > >(from cygwin ports) very successfully for two or three months. > >Yesterday I installed cygwin 1.7.0-64 from setup (replacing 1.7.0-62, >

Re: Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5 and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed

2009-11-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 19:10, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/11/17 Eric Blake: > > Thomas Wolff writes: > > > >> Sorry that I take this up once more (after promising ), but I > >> had this additional idea after seeing your point about being strictly > >> consistent with the POSIX pathname namespace: > >> > >> So what

Re: msmtp is old

2009-11-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 18/11/2009 02:34, Gary . wrote: Is there any reason the supported msmtp version is back at 1.4.13, which is over two years old? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.old-packages Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg

msmtp is old

2009-11-18 Thread Gary .
Is there any reason the supported msmtp version is back at 1.4.13, which is over two years old? (Sorry if the question has been asked before, but I only get "Internal Server Error" from the server at sourceware.org when searching the mailing list...) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr