Re: Which version of cygwin 'rock solid'

2012-08-17 Thread Devin Nate
Hi Christopher, Well put, and you're absolutely right, and thank you. We've ourselves composed gpl code, contributed several patches/bugfixes to several projects, supported Linux (red hat) through multiple enterprise agreements, and are very familiar with the GPL. We have no less than 40 rhel e

Re: Which version of cygwin 'rock solid'

2012-08-17 Thread Devin Nate
Thank you Eric, I've sent in a ticket to Red Hat Sales based on your advice. On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:46 PM, "Eric Blake" wrote: > On 08/17/2012 04:13 PM, Devin Nate wrote: >> My question, of the Cygwin users (or developers), which version would you >> select if your goal was maximum stability?

Re: Which version of cygwin 'rock solid'

2012-08-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/17/2012 04:13 PM, Devin Nate wrote: > My question, of the Cygwin users (or developers), which version would you > select if your goal was maximum stability? If I were worried about maximum stability, I would buy a Red Hat support contract rather than relying on upstream cygwin. (For that m

Re: Which version of cygwin 'rock solid'

2012-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:13:20PM +, Devin Nate wrote: >We use Cygwin in a product we create. Thank you all for the work to >make it such a wonderful product. Our use of the Cygwin env is very >limited, comprised of only: ?cygwin dll 1.7.9, ssh.exe, rsync.exe, >openssl.exe, and required dlls

Re: using an MSVC C DLL with Cygwin gcc

2012-08-17 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 8/17/2012 5:45 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > for(i=0;i<10;i++) > printf("%d\n", b[i]); ^^ You want %g or %f. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

using an MSVC C DLL with Cygwin gcc

2012-08-17 Thread Daniel Brown
Hi all, So I have a C dll written in MSVC which is being called by a Cygwin programmed compiled with gcc. So far it all works ok apart from when I try and pass an array that the dll should then change. For example I have this in the dll: __declspec(dllexport) void array_read_write(double *sr

Re: Which version of cygwin 'rock solid'

2012-08-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/17/2012 3:13 PM, Devin Nate wrote: Hi all; We use Cygwin in a product we create. Thank you all for the work to make it such a wonderful product. Our use of the Cygwin env is very limited, comprised of only: cygwin dll 1.7.9, ssh.exe, rsync.exe, openssl.exe, and required dlls. Our produc

Re: Perl 5.14 and XML::Parser

2012-08-17 Thread Reini Urban
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:04:48PM -0600, Thomas Wicklund wrote: >>The update of perl on to 5.14 moved some perl modules to a new >>perl_vendor package which is not installed by default. The >>announcement I found stated that perl_vendo

Which version of cygwin 'rock solid'

2012-08-17 Thread Devin Nate
Hi all; We use Cygwin in a product we create. Thank you all for the work to make it such a wonderful product. Our use of the Cygwin env is very limited, comprised of only:  cygwin dll 1.7.9, ssh.exe, rsync.exe, openssl.exe, and required dlls. Our product rarely changes, so stability is paramoun

Re: wordexp bug

2012-08-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/17/2012 01:49 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2012-08-17 15:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> AFAICS wordexp(3) is completely broken, returning WRDE_SYNTAX no >> matter what I supply as the string. STC attached. > > I suspect you are using Cygwin, and if so I suspect that we have been > bitten by

RE: Updated: CMake 2.8.9-2

2012-08-17 Thread Jacob Adopley
Thanks I tried it but it did not work. I can compile my C++, C and Fortran programs even with object versions just like I used to do. It is only the JAVA programs that is the trouble. Is there a new command now to compile java programs on GNU GCC apart from javac? I saw a command like gcj! What

Re: wordexp bug

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-08-17 21:49, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2012-08-17 15:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> AFAICS wordexp(3) is completely broken, returning WRDE_SYNTAX no >> matter what I supply as the string. STC attached. > > I suspect you are using Cygwin, and if so I suspect that we have been > bitten by th

Re: wordexp bug

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-08-17 15:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > AFAICS wordexp(3) is completely broken, returning WRDE_SYNTAX no > matter what I supply as the string. STC attached. I suspect you are using Cygwin, and if so I suspect that we have been bitten by this change in bash-4.1-rc: c. The (undocumented)

Re: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Wilson
> Software built for Cygwin should _always_ follow *NIX behaviour. > > Yaakov Amen! -- 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-

RE: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Wilson
> Sometimes I don't understand the antagonism towards interop with native > Windows programs that don't do anything unusual and do things by the > (Windows) book. It seems like it defeats the point of the project > if that goes too far. What's wrong with being pragmatic sometimes? There is n

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > I should have asked this before: I don't think anyone has made it > clear if they are running the cygwin ping or the Windows one. I've > been assuming Cygwin. Is that correct? Cygwin's ping. I've removed any remnants of Windows' PATH from all Cygwin startup scripts.

Re: Another sigwaitinfo problem (with testcase)

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: > More odd behavior under the 2012-08-16 snapshot: > > 1) Start vim > 2) Hit C-z > 3) Run "fg" > 4) Observe that vim doesn't reappear. Rather, nothing happens, until... > 5) C-c > 6) vim now redisplays and accepts input I can confirm this behaviour. Regards, Achim. --

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internal-sftp logs

2012-08-17 Thread James Calfee
Where are the logs in Cygwin for sftp? I'm using the sftp subsystem. There is nothing to be found in /var/log/sshd.log or /var/log/*. I have already enabled logging in my sshd_config file as follows: Subsystem sftpinternal-sftp -l INFO -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 03:50:05PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:07:30AM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >>> I'm still seeing exactly the same issue having taken the 20120816 snapshot. >>> If anything, I've been hitting the problem more. >> >> I s

RE: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Christopher Faylor wrote > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:07:30AM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> I'm still seeing exactly the same issue having taken the 20120816 snapshot. >> If anything, I've been hitting the problem more. > > I should have asked this before: I don't think anyone has made it clear

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.7.6-1

2012-08-17 Thread David Rothenberger
NEWS: = See CHANGES (URL below) for more information about the differences between 1.7.6 and previous Subversion releases. IMPORTANT: Please read the release notes (URL below) before upgrading from a previous major release. 1.7 includes a new working copy format with a manual upgrade operation

Re: Options for getting mandatory locking in cygwin1.dll

2012-08-17 Thread Warren Young
On 8/17/2012 3:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 13:51, Warren Young wrote: On 8/16/2012 6:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You are aware that there's no chance at all to implement the UNIX locking API calls correctly this way... Cygwin could follow Linux and implement 'mount -o mand'

Re: False BLODA warning concerning cygusb?

2012-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:47:10AM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: >On 17/08/2012 10:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> I have no problems with occassional false postives. The detect_bloda >> option is meant for diagnostic purposes only. It's not meant to used >> all the time. It slows down *every* thre

Re: cygwin commands (cat,grep) not working in my windows 2008 machine

2012-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:40:29PM -0700, cyberdon wrote: >HI, > >I was getting error when tryin to run cat command as well but once i ran it >like this: > >/bin/cat pinger.data > >then it began to work and the data from file "pinger.data" was parsed out >Maybe this'll work for you. That implies

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:07:30AM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:48:03PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >>> I'm still using this snapshot (I've had no reason to stop until now), and >>> have hit this issue two out of the last five times running

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: CMake 2.8.9-2

2012-08-17 Thread Bill Hoffman
CMake 2.8.9-2 is now available on Cygwin mirrors. This is a cygwin only patch release. The only difference between 2.8.9-1 and 2.8.9-2 is the addition of the ccmake which was inadvertently left out of the 2.8.9-1 release. Thanks. -Bill *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you wa

Re: Options for getting mandatory locking in cygwin1.dll (was: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?)

2012-08-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > A "mand" mount option sounds like a really interesting idea, together > with the special group permission settings as described in the Linux > fcntl(2) man page. Maybe we can even relax that by making the "mand" > option the default setting, so the correct file perm

Re: Stop with the automatic updates

2012-08-17 Thread Filipp Gunbin
On 17/08/2012 14:46, Herbert Stocker wrote: > On 17.08.2012 09:17, Gary wrote: >> Every time I use it I have to remember to deselect all the packages it >> marks for "upgrade". Why? Why is it so bad to want to use Subversion >> release 1.6, for example? Especially since 1.7 does not work with >> w

Re: False BLODA warning concerning cygusb?

2012-08-17 Thread Cliff Hones
On 17/08/2012 10:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I have no problems with occassional false postives. The detect_bloda > option is meant for diagnostic purposes only. It's not meant to used > all the time. It slows down *every* thread start up! Thanks. I was only reporting it as I thought I reme

Re: Stop with the automatic updates

2012-08-17 Thread Herbert Stocker
On 17.08.2012 09:17, Gary wrote: Every time I use it I have to remember to deselect all the packages it marks for "upgrade". Why? Why is it so bad to want to use Subversion release 1.6, for example? Especially since 1.7 does not work with working copies created under 1.6. Why should we expose our

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz NexGo.DE> writes: > This is still happening with the 2012-08-16 19:31:57 UTC snapshot. And now I see that all that killing business has left some "tcsh" processes in task manager with a size of 60k (much too small for both tcsh and ping) that ps in Cygwin doesn't show. I could termi

Re: False BLODA warning concerning cygusb?

2012-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 02:56, Cliff Hones wrote: > I am seeing the following when invoking a utility which uses libusb to > drive a USB JTAG interface dongle: > > Potential BLODA detected! Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL: > C:\cygwin1.7\bin\cygusb-1.0.dll > > I've had CYGWIN=detect_bloda s

Re: Options for getting mandatory locking in cygwin1.dll (was: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?)

2012-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 13:51, Warren Young wrote: > On 8/16/2012 6:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 16 06:01, Warren Young wrote: > >>Advisory locking only works when all players cooperate. We can't > >>assume that on Windows, unless we set up an insular Cygwin ghetto. > > > >So, are you saying that Cy

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz NexGo.DE> writes: > With the latest snapshot (2012-08-07), pinging a dead machine (i.e. has a DNS > entry but doesn't answer) from tcsh in mintty, I can't Ctrl-C ping and have to > wait until it finally times out. > > # ping deadbeef > PING deadbeef (xx.xx.xx.xx): 56 data bytes This

RE: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:48:03PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> I'm still using this snapshot (I've had no reason to stop until now), and >> have hit this issue two out of the last five times running Cygwin ping. The >> ping process is still visible in Process Explor