Re: Cygstart through SSH tunnel

2011-02-04 Thread marco atzeri
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM, davej1983 wrote: > > Hi, I'm fairly new to Cygwin, so this might be a pretty simple question, but > so far I haven't had any luck finding an answer so far. > > I have an SSH server running on a remote computer, that I can log into using > cygwin. While logged, if I

Cygstart through SSH tunnel

2011-02-04 Thread davej1983
Hi, I'm fairly new to Cygwin, so this might be a pretty simple question, but so far I haven't had any luck finding an answer so far. I have an SSH server running on a remote computer, that I can log into using cygwin. While logged, if I use cygstart to try to open a file, or if I try to launch a

Re: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin

2011-02-04 Thread Warren Young
On 2/2/2011 9:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If only the one's who decided that wchar_t in Cygwin should have the same size as WCHAR_T in the underlying Windows would have thought twice about the implications... Cygwin 1.9? Or maybe 2.0, if it breaks ABIs? -- Problem reports: http://cy

Revisiting cloning cygwin install by copying cygwin folder

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Just wanted to confirm that for cygwin 1.7, one can still for the most part clone a cygwin installation simply by copying over the entire cygwin tree. I know there are a few caveats: 1. You may want to remake your passwd and group files since the SID's will likely differ. Presumably, it would b

'diff -ruw' messes up on shadow mounts for directories but works for files

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
I use vshadow under WinXP to create shadow copies of my Windows partitions and then I use dosdev to associate the shadow copies with drive letters (since at least in the past it was not possible to access WinXP shadow copies directly from cygwin). I then mount the drive using the standard cygwin mo

1.7.7 Cygwin/X: cannot start X from Menu link

2011-02-04 Thread Gerry Reno
I installed Cygwin/X and right after installation I was able to click on the menu link and start X. Then I clicked on the Hide Root Window option on the X icon menu and the screen went blank so I had to reboot. Now I can no longer start X from the menu link. I can start X from a bash shell just

Re: sigsegv in compiled cygwin

2011-02-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:40:46PM +0900, jojelino wrote: >i'm trying to build cygwin with gcc 4.6 trunk. and compile succeed. >but when i try to run cygwin-linked executables with new-compiled-one, >initialization routine failed with sigsegv at win32_whatever+14 > > 0x61171a20 <+0>: jmp

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.8p1-1

2011-02-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the Cygwin version of OpenSSH to 5.8p1-1. This is an upstream security and bugfix release. The Cygwin release additionally contains a patch to the ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config scripts which additionally asks to create the new ECDSA key type. The patch has not yet been ap

sigsegv in compiled cygwin

2011-02-04 Thread jojelino
i'm trying to build cygwin with gcc 4.6 trunk. and compile succeed. but when i try to run cygwin-linked executables with new-compiled-one, initialization routine failed with sigsegv at win32_whatever+14 0x61171a20 <+0>: jmp0x61171a25 0x61171a25 <+5>: mov0x61171a2c,%eax

Re: I'm offline

2011-02-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 4 10:24, Reini Urban wrote: > I'll be offline (in Africa) for the next 2 1/2 weeks. Have fun! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: 1.7: Setting noacl (or how do I get modified files to not become executable)

2011-02-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 3 17:17, Edward Lam wrote: > Dear Cygwin gurus, > > I'm hoping to find some solution to the problem where if a file is > modified by a native Windows application, it becomes "executable" > according to cygwin. > > After some searching, it appears that the only way to do this is by > setti

Re: Reproducer for TCSH hangs

2011-02-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 3 11:39, Stewart Brown wrote: > > The following shell script demonstrates a problem > that results in hanging scripts with CYGWIN 1.7.7: > > #!/bin/csh -f > > unalias * > set path = ( /usr/bin /usr/sbin /bin /sbin ) > > @ i = 0 > while (1) > > # uncomment this and the iteration will pr

I'm offline

2011-02-04 Thread Reini Urban
I'll be offline (in Africa) for the next 2 1/2 weeks. -- Reini Urban -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple