Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 14 May 14:51 -0500, marco atzeri wrote > so it seems the bash process has problem to connect with mc. > Does "mc --nosubshell" freeze ? No, in fact, I get the plain $ prompt in the command bar and it accepts commands. > not so much. > > following instruction on http://cygwin.com/probl

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread marco atzeri
Il 5/14/2013 8:37 PM, Nate Bargmann ha scritto: * On 2013 14 May 11:52 -0500, marco atzeri wrote: Hi Nate, set mc for 'Lynx type motion', disabled the hint bar, but I always see the $ of bar command. Hi Marco. Using Windows Explorer I deleted the .cache, .config, and .local directories (only

Re: Clean install, incomplete setup - no home dir, broken PATH

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 11:47, Daniel Davis wrote: Invoking mintty with "/bin/bash -l" is a perfect workaround so far. Sometime later I'll look for the mintty source code and try and figure out why mintty isn't running "bash -l" by default. mintty *doesn't* run "bash -l" by default. The default shortcut

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 14 May 11:52 -0500, marco atzeri wrote: > Hi Nate, > set mc for 'Lynx type motion', disabled the hint bar, > but I always see the $ of bar command. Hi Marco. Using Windows Explorer I deleted the .cache, .config, and .local directories (only mc had anything stored there) and started mc

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrew Pennebaker! > Hmm, the online package listing for base doesn't list the executables > it comes with. Base CATEGORY, not "base" package. > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=base-cygwin%2Fbase-cygwin-3.1-1&grep=base > Would it make sense to add this information to

Re: Clean install, incomplete setup - no home dir, broken PATH

2013-05-14 Thread Daniel Davis
> If you suspect a scripting issue and you're using 'mintty', you can invoke > it this way to see where the scripts might be going wrong: > > mintty /bin/bash -i -l -x > > Otherwise, you can just invoke 'bash' directly from a command prompt with > the line above minus the 'mintty' bit. Thanks fo

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:59:24AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 5/14/2013 10:44, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't think the documentation should be considered the definitive >>source for this since it is likely to change over time and the >>documentation is likely to be out of date. > >It woul

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 10:44, Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't think the documentation should be considered the definitive source for this since it is likely to change over time and the documentation is likely to be out of date. It wouldn't be too hard to take this a few steps further and completely a

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread marco atzeri
Il 5/14/2013 6:08 PM, Nate Bargmann ha scritto: I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week and since then I have found that

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:07:34AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 5/14/2013 09:11, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: >> Thanks for the info! > >See the third iteration. The first list included about 160 items, the >second ~190, and the current list is up to 266. > >That includes shell scripts and symlinks

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 09:58, Warren Young wrote: On 5/14/2013 08:47, Andy Koppe wrote: I think there are additional ones that get pulled in as dependencies Yup. Third attempt: Grrr. Fourth attempt: [ addftinfo afmtodit alternatives apropos arch ash awk backup banner base64 basename bash b

Re: Error writing to /dev/dsp.

2013-05-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 14 17:22, michele.sanges wrote: > Hi all, > I wish report a problem regarding the use of /dev/dsp device. > > My program opens this device, then configures and writes a data > stream in it. > > The write operation is made passing to the write() function a > valid /dev/dsp file descripto

Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week and since then I have found that the sub-shell started by Midnight Commander is app

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 09:11, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: Thanks for the info! See the third iteration. The first list included about 160 items, the second ~190, and the current list is up to 266. That includes shell scripts and symlinks, but I assume what you really want to know is "what commands can

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 08:47, Andy Koppe wrote: I think there are additional ones that get pulled in as dependencies Yup. Third attempt: [ addftinfo afmtodit alternatives arch ash awk banner base64 basename bash bashbug bunzip2 bzcat bzcmp bzdiff bzegrep bzfgrep bzgrep bzip2 bzip2recover b

Error writing to /dev/dsp.

2013-05-14 Thread michele.sanges
Hi all, I wish report a problem regarding the use of /dev/dsp device. My program opens this device, then configures and writes a data stream in it. The write operation is made passing to the write() function a valid /dev/dsp file descriptor, as returned from the open function, the buffer data

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
Thanks for the info! Hmm, the online package listing for base doesn't list the executables it comes with. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=base-cygwin%2Fbase-cygwin-3.1-1&grep=base Would it make sense to add this information to the online docs? -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.y

Re: Error building crossgcc on cygwin

2013-05-14 Thread Tim Prince
On 05/14/2013 10:04 AM, Josef Wolf wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile gcc on cygwin under 64bit win7 To configure gcc, I use the following command: /var/tmp/builds/crossgcc/src/gcc-4.7.2/configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/crossgcc \ --with-gmp=/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr \

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 May 2013 15:26, Warren Young wrote: > On 5/14/2013 07:28, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: >> >> I'm looking through the docs, but I can't find a comprehensive list of >> which executables come with Cygwin by default. > > > It changes from time to time. The basic rule is, "whatever is in the Base >

Re: Error building crossgcc on cygwin

2013-05-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/05/2013 10:04 AM, Josef Wolf wrote: I am trying to compile gcc on cygwin under 64bit win7 To configure gcc, I use the following command: /var/tmp/builds/crossgcc/src/gcc-4.7.2/configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/crossgcc \ --with-gmp=/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr \ --with-

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 08:26, Warren Young wrote: The executables contained within those packages are: That list was incomplete for two reasons. First, vim-minimal just got added to Base, and I hadn't installed it, so my cygcheck on it gave nothing. Second, my cygcheck loop was only showing actual ex

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Warren Young
On 5/14/2013 07:28, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: I'm looking through the docs, but I can't find a comprehensive list of which executables come with Cygwin by default. It changes from time to time. The basic rule is, "whatever is in the Base category" in the package repository. At the moment, th

Error building crossgcc on cygwin

2013-05-14 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, I am trying to compile gcc on cygwin under 64bit win7 To configure gcc, I use the following command: /var/tmp/builds/crossgcc/src/gcc-4.7.2/configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/crossgcc \ --with-gmp=/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr \ --with-mpc=/usr/x86_64-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr \

Re: mktime loop

2013-05-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 13 18:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 13 18:41, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > On 2013-05-13 17:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Erm... hang on. Is that really a problem? 2147483647 is 0x7fff, > > > which is the maximum you get with a 4 byte time_t (== signed long) > > > anyway. If

What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
I'm looking through the docs, but I can't find a comprehensive list of which executables come with Cygwin by default. Can someone point me to such a list? -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

Re: Cygwin mkpasswd giving The format of the specified domain name is invalid

2013-05-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 14 11:01, Sorin Sbarnea wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to make mkpasswd/mkgroup to work on a Windows 2003 R2 > Enterprise x64. > > While trying to finish Cygwin config and running mkpasswd -l -d and > mkgroup, it fails with the following error: > > $ mkpasswd -l -u sorins -d /etc/passwd Ou

Fwd: Cygwin mkpasswd giving The format of the specified domain name is invalid

2013-05-14 Thread Sorin Sbarnea
Hi, I am unable to make mkpasswd/mkgroup to work on a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64. While trying to finish Cygwin config and running mkpasswd -l -d and mkgroup, it fails with the following error: $ mkpasswd -l -u sorins -d /etc/passwd sorins:unused:1012:513:sorins,U-JIRA\sorins,S-1-5-21-117986

Re: Why does CYGWIN implementation of getgrouplist() verify the supplied user or gid?

2013-05-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 13 20:51, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hello, > > Per a hint I've got earlier today from this list (and which I appreciate!), > I've tried to use getgrouplist() to obtain group information about a user. > There's a problem with that. > > I notice that the actual behavior o

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