Re: It's raining stackdumps

Gary wrote: Ken Brown wrote: On 9/21/2010 5:12 PM, SJ Wright wrote: Gary wrote: And empty ones at that. emacs, you say? Well, that sort of trims it down Are you saying that you get stackdumps while using emacs? If I had to guess at what is caus

RE: backtics

This probably isn't a backtic problem, but using backtics causes it. ls `ls` results in file not found errors. ie: bash-3.2$ ls 35ms 40ms 80ms bash-3.2$ ls `ls` ls: cannot access 35ms: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 40ms: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 80ms: No such f

Re: strange crashes on invocation

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Heath Kehoe wrote: > >On 9/24/2010 11:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Sep 24 11:31, Heath Kehoe wrote: >>> The path is correct. I have no explanation why changing from a >>> filename to a pathname (and LoadLibrary to LoadLibraryW) would make >>> any di

Re: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cgywin?

On 22 September 2010 11:11, Csaba Raduly wrote: >> you can switch among mintty windows with Ctrl+Tab > > Ouch. I just tried Ctrl+Tab and the mintty window simply disappeared, > leaving the shell process (bash or ssh) behind without a window > (visible or otherwise). :( Fixed on svn for 0.9, follow

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autobuild-5.3-1

Autobuild is a package that process output from building software, primarily focused on packages using Autoconf and Automake, and then generate a HTML summary file, containing links to each build log. The output include project name, version, build host types (cross compile aware), compiler host n

Re: strange crashes on invocation

On 9/24/2010 11:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 24 11:31, Heath Kehoe wrote: The path is correct. I have no explanation why changing from a filename to a pathname (and LoadLibrary to LoadLibraryW) would make any difference, unless there's a race condition, say if LoadLibrary[W] is a bit f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.4-1

GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is major new upstream release, as evidenced by the version number change from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. However, as cygwin's recent 2.2.11a release was taken

Re: backtics

Hello, * On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:39:21AM -0600 Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/24/2010 07:43 AM, mel...@orangepalantir.org wrote: >> This probably isn't a backtic problem, but using backtics causes it. >> >> ls `ls` >> >> results in file not found errors. ie: >> >> bash-3.2$ ls >> 35ms 40ms 80ms >>

Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem

Eric Blake wrote: On 09/22/2010 03:02 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Again, why does Cygwin's (virtual) file system _not_ include those devices (when listing /dev)? (Why doesn't it do it more like Linux's /proc, etc., which gives a consistent view and which tells you what's available without you

Re: strange crashes on invocation

On Sep 24 11:31, Heath Kehoe wrote: > > On 9/24/2010 4:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >Can you revert to the latest from CVS and try again with this patch applied: > > > >Index: autoload.cc > >=== > >RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsu

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

On Sep 24 10:35, Keith Christian wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > I went to the Cygwin Snapshots page, I suppose I'll look for a file > with a name similar to this one: > > --> cygwin1-20100923.dll.bz2 > > except having a "0924" date string in it? Will the Changelog or Diffs > links at the top of the

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

Hi Corinna, I went to the Cygwin Snapshots page, I suppose I'll look for a file with a name similar to this one: --> cygwin1-20100923.dll.bz2 except having a "0924" date string in it? Will the Changelog or Diffs links at the top of the page identify the patched build? ===Keith -- Proble

Re: strange crashes on invocation

On 9/24/2010 4:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Can you revert to the latest from CVS and try again with this patch applied: Index: autoload.cc === RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/autoload.cc,v retrieving revision 1.174 diff -u

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

On Sep 24 08:49, Keith Christian wrote: > > Does a call to chmod fail as well?  If so, can you create an strace of > > such a chmod, like this: > > > >  $ touch foo > >  $ strace -o chmod.trace chmod 444 foo > > > > and send the chmod.trace file to the list? > > > > Thanks, Corinna, > > Yes, I

Re: backtics

On 09/24/2010 07:43 AM, mel...@orangepalantir.org wrote: This probably isn't a backtic problem, but using backtics causes it. ls `ls` results in file not found errors. ie: bash-3.2$ ls 35ms 40ms 80ms bash-3.2$ ls `ls` ls: cannot access 35ms: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 40ms:

Re: Cygwin instabilities

> > You'll need to be more specific about the issues you're encountering > and your configuration.  See . > The majority of instabilities I observerved while compressing manpages with bzip2 -9, a minority during execessiv link operations. Some others I can't relat

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 05:15:38AM -0400, SJ Wright wrote: >I haven't given up totally on rxvt: mintty has more than a few >shortcomings imo, but I suspect a large part of that is that I'm not >used to using an xterm variant outside of X or GNOME. Anyway, all of >that is for another email. I'm

backtics

This probably isn't a backtic problem, but using backtics causes it. ls `ls` results in file not found errors. ie: bash-3.2$ ls 35ms 40ms 80ms bash-3.2$ ls `ls` ls: cannot access 35ms: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 40ms: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 80ms: No such f

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

Eirik Nordbrøden wrote: Any help in this regard would be much appreciated. Steve W. I have these in my .bash_profile file: # Terminal title PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${us...@${hostname}: ${PWD}\007"' Works at least for xterm and MinTTY. Eirik Nordbrøden, Morecom A/S (+47) 901747

RE: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

> > Any help in this regard would be much appreciated. > > Steve W. I have these in my .bash_profile file: # Terminal title PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${us...@${hostname}: ${PWD}\007"' Works at least for xterm and MinTTY. Eirik Nordbrøden, Morecom A/S (+47) 90174789 -- Problem reports:

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:15 AM, SJ Wright wrote: > I'd like my terminal title bar to show my current working directory, the > running process (with a fall-back to the active shell when idle) and the > word "Cygwin." > > I have an old .bashrc file in which I collected code for the middle bit > (r

RE: openssh port forwarding administratively prohibited

> I'm not sure what to do to fix this though. The administrative prohibition is on the server. There's nothing you can do to fix it, other than find a server that isn't github to proxy through. Accelrys Limited (http://accelrys.com) Registered office: 334 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

On Sep 23 10:05, Keith Christian wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote > > Is that a remote drive? If so, did your admin set the share mode to > > "Change" rather than using "Full Control" and set appropriate NTFS > > permissions? If so, either harass your admin to rev

Re: strange crashes on invocation

On Sep 23 18:22, Heath Kehoe wrote: > > On 9/23/2010 3:07 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: > >On 9/23/2010 12:13 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: > >>I have a build system that uses rake under cygwin, and every so often > >>a build tool will crash on invocation: > >> > >> 1 [main] bclanc 1576! C:\budcat\t

Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

I'd like my terminal title bar to show my current working directory, the running process (with a fall-back to the active shell when idle) and the word "Cygwin." I have an old .bashrc file in which I collected code for the middle bit (running process), but putting the three together and making

Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2010/9/24 Gary Furash : > I regularly update my CYGWIN installation, so I received the new > version of Perl that is included in the current CYGWIN distribution. > When I run > perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->notest(install => CPAN::Shell->r)' > it works fine, until it gets to trying to install a new