Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:11:46AM +, TryingToHelp wrote: >This is a known DOS/Windows bug. I'm fairly sure that DOS used NUL as a null >device, and that Windows kept it around (not sure why, guess it's for >backward-compatibility). This thread is more than a month old. There is no reason to

Re: Re: sshd problem with recent snapshots

2010-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 08:45:01PM -0700, Jeff Odegard wrote: >On 12:59 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 11/5/2010 8:03 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> If I start sshd on a machine running a recent snapshot, I'm unable to >>> login to that machine via ssh. The connection is closed right after I >>> type my pass

Re: Cygwin uninstall: Problem with /dev/nul

2010-11-14 Thread TryingToHelp
This is a known DOS/Windows bug. I'm fairly sure that DOS used NUL as a null device, and that Windows kept it around (not sure why, guess it's for backward-compatibility). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Re: sshd problem with recent snapshots

2010-11-14 Thread jeff . odegard
Bump. I just posted the same problem on Friday night on Windows 7. On 12:59 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/5/2010 8:03 AM, Ken Brown wrote: If I start sshd on a machine running a recent snapshot, I'm unable to login to that machine via ssh. The connection is closed right after I type my password.

Re: Python: subprocess running rsync causes broken socket in telnetlib

2010-11-14 Thread David Antliff
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 18:03, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 11/11/2010 10:19 PM, David Antliff wrote: >> On Cygwin 1.7.7, this does something nasty to the completely unrelated >> yet existing telnetlib socket so that any further attempts to read or >> write from this socket raise an exception: [snip]