Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.15

2012-05-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.05.2012 08:28, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.15. This is a bugfix release. Only one new feature has been added. ... Bug fixes: == - Fix ... Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00094.html It's a great idea (and very pro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: cygwin-debug-1.7.15-1

2012-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just uploaded a new package called cygwin-debug-1.7.15-1. This new cygwin-debug package contains the cygwin1.dbg file, which contains the debug information for the Cygwin DLL, which can be used by GDB or tools like addr2line to create meaningfull output. For source level debugging with GDB y

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.15

2012-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.15. This is a bugfix release. Only one new feature has been added. Cygwin itself is now packaged using cygport as well. What's new: === - Add CYGWIN=pipe_byte option to force opening of pipes in byte mode rather than message mode.

Re: Portmap RPC registration fails

2012-05-09 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/9/2012 2:20 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 8 22:41, Ken wrote: The above doesn't look like a plausible IPV6 address. I have IPV6 enabled on my network adapter. Is it possible that portmap isn't compatible with IPV6? That would explain why older code (such as CygWin NFS Server - IPV4) i

Re: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping)

2012-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:21:34PM -, James Johnston wrote: >On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:59:58AM -0700, Linda Walsh, the dead discussion >resurrector wrote: >>I can't say with 100% certainty, but I would bet with 90+% confidence >>that this is a bug in MS's libraries -- they "cheat" and use a n

RE: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping)

2012-05-09 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 19:00 > Subject: Re: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when > redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping) > > I can't say with 100% certainty, but I would bet with 90+% confidence that > this > is a bug in MS's libra

Re: Cygwin passes through null writes to other software when redirecting standard input/output (i.e. piping)

2012-05-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Daniel Colascione wrote: On 4/27/12 10:27 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: The above comment shows an "and" relationship here. Message type pipes more closely mimic Linux (UNIX) pipe behavior AND are definitely required for ptys. Yeah, but because message pipes break other programs. Cygwin has

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-05-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > There's something fishy on your machine, and it's not Cygwin, afaics. > I'd still blame some firewall/virus stuff. Thank you for looking into this. I suspect the configuration of our machines as well (since it is not just mine), since it only seems to happen when execut

Re: Portmap RPC registration fails

2012-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 8 22:41, Ken wrote: > Further to this post... With a struggle I built libtirpc.a and traced > execution. Ultimately this is failing in clnt_vc.c. The following call in > clnt_vc_create: > > connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)raddr->buf, raddr->len) > > supplies an IPV6 address with hex valu

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 9 06:57, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > I don't know how to use pod2html. Please send a simple usage example > > which works out of the box, so that I can see if I can reproduce this > > behaviour. > > (1004)~ > time pod2html --flush --title=DateTime::Local

1.7.14-2: pthread_cancel and pthread_kill not working as expected

2012-05-09 Thread Otto Meta
Greetings everyone, while porting a project from Linux to Cygwin I noticed that pthread_cancel was having trouble cancelling threads blocked on semaphores and reads from stdin. Another user had a similar problem a while ago: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-01/msg00374.html According to the

Re: Cygwin 1.7.14-2 make/gcc no longer functional on Windows 7 64-bit

2012-05-09 Thread marco atzeri
On 5/9/2012 11:59 AM, dag...@aol.com wrote: I just installed Cygwin on Windows 7 64-bit, rooted at D:\cygwin, using the latest (1.7.14-2) setup.exe a few hours ago. In addition to the default packages, I added several others including gcc4, gcc, and GNU make. (See the attached cygcheck.out

Re: How exactly does ctime work?

2012-05-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 8 16:06, Joshua Hudson wrote: > We had a weird incident involving ctime changing unexpectedly when > mtime did not. > > On a normal UNIX system, we'd immediately say somebody changed the > file and set mtime back, Or something has set ctime without setting mtime, like chmod, chown, and t