Re: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Honermann
I spent most of the week debugging this issue. This appears to be a defect in Windows. I can reproduce the issue without Cygwin. I can't rule out other third party kernel mode software possibly contributing to the issue. A simple change to Cygwin works around the problem for me. I don't kn

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Denis Excoffier! >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> However i don't see how to >>> derive the 8.3 form from my original filename, using DOS only. >> >> The /X argument to cmd.exe's dir command will give you the 8.3 name if >> it exists. Note that your syste

Re: Python maintainer attention - wrong dependency

2012-12-20 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 06:48:25PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: > It seems the dependency was wrongly adjusted for the > test version: 2.7.3-1 > > Today: > setup-timestamp: 1356006675 > > requires: crypt libbz2_1 libdb4.5 libexpat1 libffi4 libgcc1 libgdbm4 > libintl8 libncursesw10 libreadline7 libs

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/20/2012 02:34 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: > On 2012-12-20, 18:49, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> However i don't see how to >>> derive the 8.3 form from my original filename, using DOS only. >> >> The /X argument to cmd.exe's dir command will

Re: last snapshot does not compile

2012-12-20 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2012-11-28, 11:05, Denis Excoffier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:09:48AM +0059, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:29:49AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If you set the environment variable CCWRAP_VERBOSE and then rebuild > cygcheck.o and cygcheck.exe, what's t

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2012-12-20, 18:49, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> However i don't see how to >> derive the 8.3 form from my original filename, using DOS only. > > The /X argument to cmd.exe's dir command will give you the 8.3 name if > it exists. Note that your

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2012-12-20, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Denis Excoffier! > >> For the moment, the best solution i have is to copy >> the original file into, say, %TEMP%\dummy.txt, hoping that %TEMP% >> will not contain any spaces: > > It will, if %USERPROFILE% do. On most systems, user's %TEMP% will be l

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2012-12-20 14:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 20 12:55, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:34:37AM +0100, Csaba Raduly wrote: H Denis, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to use the @pathname featu

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-20 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 20/12/2012 10:46 AM, George Barrick wrote: Re: X windows problems 2012.12.20.17:45:35 UT Hi Art, I installed Cygwin earlier this year on the laptop computer of one of my students. I typically use a rather barebones configuration where I have XWin running in the

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: > However i don't see how to > derive the 8.3 form from my original filename, using DOS only. The /X argument to cmd.exe's dir command will give you the 8.3 name if it exists. Note that your system can be configured to not produce the 8.3 fo

Python maintainer attention - wrong dependency

2012-12-20 Thread marco atzeri
It seems the dependency was wrongly adjusted for the test version: 2.7.3-1 Today: setup-timestamp: 1356006675 requires: crypt libbz2_1 libdb4.5 libexpat1 libffi4 libgcc1 libgdbm4 libintl8 libncursesw10 libreadline7 libsqlite3_0 libopenssl100 zlib0 _autorebase cygwin Previously setup-timesta

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-20 Thread George Barrick
Re: X windows problems 2012.12.20.17:45:35 UT Hi Art, I installed Cygwin earlier this year on the laptop computer of one of my students. I typically use a rather barebones configuration where I have XWin running in the multiwindow mode. I use Cygwin in order to get t

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Denis Excoffier! > For the moment, the best solution i have is to copy > the original file into, say, %TEMP%\dummy.txt, hoping that %TEMP% > will not contain any spaces: It will, if %USERPROFILE% do. On most systems, user's %TEMP% will be located in %LocalAppData%/Temp, which is derive

Re: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

2012-12-20 Thread David Boyce
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Paul Fredrickson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM, David Boyce wrote: >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+_md5 >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10306531/python-importerror-no-module-named-md5 >> > > Well, it certainly isn't obvious to me how this applied

Re: Suggestion to make cygserver's unknown uid/gid messages more informative

2012-12-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/20/2012 10:52 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello, Could you please consider adding a bit more information to these two cygserver messages to help identify the offending user or group, for which they get issued: cygserver: WARNING: User not found in /etc/passwd! Using ui

Suggestion to make cygserver's unknown uid/gid messages more informative

2012-12-20 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hello, Could you please consider adding a bit more information to these two cygserver messages to help identify the offending user or group, for which they get issued: cygserver: WARNING: User not found in /etc/passwd! Using uid -1! cygserver: WARNING: Group not found in /etc/group! Using gid -1!

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 12:55, Denis Excoffier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:34:37AM +0100, Csaba Raduly wrote: > >> H Denis, > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: > >> > > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I try to use the @pathname feature (see > >> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:34:37AM +0100, Csaba Raduly wrote: >> H Denis, >> >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > I try to use the @pathname feature (see >> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-at), >> > but it does n

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Csaba Raduly
H Denis, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to use the @pathname feature (see > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-at), > but it does not seem to work when pathname contains a space character. > > My test pathname is D:\Docu

RE: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

2012-12-20 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
marco atzeri wrote: > On 12/20/2012 9:33 AM, Paul Fredrickson wrote: >> So, it appears there is a package dependency between python2.6 and >> libopenssl098 that is missing, but most people who need it get it >> installed via some other package-dependency path. Very minor bug; >> should I file a bug

Re: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

2012-12-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/20/2012 9:33 AM, Paul Fredrickson wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM, David Boyce wrote: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+_md5 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10306531/python-importerror-no-module-named-md5 Well, it certainly isn't obvious to me how this applied to my situation: It o

Re: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Fredrickson
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM, David Boyce wrote: > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=python+_md5 > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10306531/python-importerror-no-module-named-md5 > Well, it certainly isn't obvious to me how this applied to my situation: It only talks about building python, and I did not