scp "lost connection" failure

crosoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\ C:\sys\AOMEI\AOMEI Backupper\7.4.2 c:\jay\bin Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe UID: 197609(jay) GID: 197121(None) 197121(None) 114(Local account and member of Administrators group) 544(Administrators) 559(Performance Log Users) 545(Users) 4(INTERACTIV

Re: Cygwin making files inaccessible?

* and this seems to have worked. I speculate that some "bad" Cygwin ACLs got created at some point. And maybe cacls wasn't deleting them?? That parts seems wierd. Maybe on directories? Possibly due to those two recent changes, or maybe user error, I don't know.  - Jay From:

Cygwin making files inaccessible?

C:\t>which cp /usr/bin/cp C:\t>cacls 2.txt C:\t\2.txt NULL SID:(DENY)(special access:) READ_CONTROL DESKTOP-BCFUMJ4\jay:(DENY)(special access:) FILE_READ_DATA FILE_READ_EA

Re: ExitProcess does not work in Cygwin?

> It is best to avoid Cygwin-specific code. Agreed. The code is mostly only ifdef win32 vs. Posix but just a few spots are Cygwin-specific. (and Apple specific, Solaris specific, IA64-specific etc.) - Jay From: Andrey Repin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2

Re: ExitProcess does not work in Cygwin?

is only taking the lower 8 bits, since I know that is a thing in some code. But I didn't dig into this further before trying the simple case, which I don't think crashes and really does NtTerminateProcess(1). - Jay From: Brian Inglis Sent: Thursday,

Re: proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win32 error 6

I don't know why I didn't get the reply in email, but this is representative of the real world code.  - Jay From: Jay K Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 6:27 AM To: cyg...@sourceware.org Subject: Re: proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win32 error 6   Ok, here

ExitProcess does not work in Cygwin?

uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 jayk-tp4 3.3.3(0.341/5/3) 2021-12-03 16:35 x86_64 Cygwin works in debugger: $ /cygdrive/c/bin/amd64/windbg.exe .\\a.exe $ echo $? 1 ? - Jay -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win32 error 6

49909 [waitproc] 1 9269 proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win32 error 6 I understand I can workaround this, in that the use of threads is silly. Is this invalid, to mix Win32 threads with cygwin system()? - Jay Fro

Re: proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win32 error 6

48ef0 "\260\324\005", 'cause i.e. it complicates any lifetime/management. I do understand some of the problems here, like needing separate threads to read stdout/stderr, if they are not equal. - Jay ________ From: Jay K Sent: Wednesday, January 12,

proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe 0x0, Win32 error 6

a bunch of invocations of gcc. "launching" was usually spawnve or fork/execve but I changed the code to use system and it still happens. I might try to make a small reproducing, if this is not known. It seems a bit difficult to believe I could cause this internal looking error. Thank you,

Re: Just updated cygutils and cygstart no longer works

Sorry, more information. I'm running Windows 10, 64-bit, AMD. I've reverted cygutils back to 1.4.16-2 and the problem is resolved. Jay On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:27 AM Jay Abel wrote: > Run cygstart with anything and no window opens. I've tried URLS cygstart >

Just updated cygutils and cygstart no longer works

Run cygstart with anything and no window opens. I've tried URLS cygstart http://www.cygwin.com, directories cygstart . and cygstart ./ as well as pdf files cygstart example.pdf. None of these seems to do anything anymore. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

bug report: shell expansion in argv[] processing sensitive to LANG, e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory", but works okay in bash

ng in Windows? (Sorry, I know that's nearly uselessly vague). In summary, it appears that the way that the argv[] globbing code which gets compiled in to Cygwin programs functions a bit differently than the way the shell globbing code works within bash.exe. And this produces unexpected globb

RE: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

s in a CMD window, or run bash.exe first; I'd initially mistakenly assumed that Cygwin terminal was the same as bash-in-CMD, but clearly it's not): LANG=en_US.UTF-8 If I set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in a Windows CMD window, **then the globbing problem goes away**. I'm not sure how

RE: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

all files containing any accented character in their name, the problem goes away. So the theory now is that the Cygwin argv-processing code has a problem with áccented charàcters ... -Jay -Original Message- From: Paul Moore Sent: Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:42 To: Jay Libove Cc: cygw

RE: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

at something weird is going on between how Cygwin does shell expansion when under Windows CMD vs. when fully within the Cygwin environment (under bash where of course bash is doing the shell expansion, and ls or other Cygwin commands don't have to). Does any of this help pinpoint the

shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash

tory So, it appears to be Cygwin shell expansion, when executed under Windows CMD, which is provoking this strange behavior. Any ideas what could be causing this, and how to solve it? many thanks, Jay -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://c

Re: Problem with installation of Octave

I'm using tcsh and for some reason the default configuration for X11 keeps leaving zombie dbus processes, none of which seem to be reachable. For example, when running Octave I get an error that dbus wasn't replying. Now, if within the open xterm window I type dbus-launch and then I run octave, t

Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

FWIW, this problem has disappeared with the latest setup.exe. There are no more errors during postinstall and AFAICT everything is working. On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Jay Goldman wrote: > I think my problem applies to this thread. > (I'm unclear how to reply to an entry in

RE: How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

On October 25, 2019 6:48 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote: >It has been reported in the past that antivirus software from Trend Micro >result in STATUS_GUARD_PAGE_VIOLATION in ntdll!RtlAllocateHeap (). >See: >http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/XWin-startup-crash-x86-64-Windows-10-td126544.html#a1265

How can I determine why gdb throws unknown exceptions when debugging programs with threads on my Cygwin installation?

fprintf(stderr, "(%s,%d): Error %d creating thread for io handler: %s\n" , __FILE__, __LINE__ , errno, strerror(errno) ); return rc; } pthread_join(fi

Re: Problem with NC.1.107

-03-19 15:35 0 usr/share/man/ 2013-03-19 15:35 0 usr/share/man/man1/ 2013-03-19 15:305052 usr/share/man/man1/nc.1.gz On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:51 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Greetings, Jay Cotton! >> >> Since nc doe

Problem with NC.1.107

Just installed nc 1.107-4 expecting to use it to debug some code. This is what I get when I try to run it. $ nc 192.168.1.135 23 bash: /usr/bin/nc: Permission denied The file permissions are messed up. $ file /usr/bin/nc /usr/bin/nc: writable, executable, regular file, no read permission I d

fast/native fork?

mon is it? How would Cygwin fair if by default fork+exec was fast, fork w/o exec didn't work, and people ported those somehow? Fyi:    https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-01-20-fork-safety.html      - Jay -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

'whois' no longer following referrals ?

2.881 64-bit, whois package version 5.2.10-1). thanks, Jay C:> WHOIS google.com Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM Registry Domain ID: 2138514_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com Updated Date: 2011-07-20T16:55:31Z

install of whois reported error - update-desktop-database - update-desktop-database

mime 3) but /usr/bin/update-desktop-database -- does not exist (( there is a 'updatedb', though.) and /usr/bin/update-mime-database-- does not exist other: setup.exe version 2.774 http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.xmission.com%2fcygwin%2f Thank you !! Jay -- Problem reports:

rcs 5.8-1 corrupt files?

@' rlog aborted --- I have saved off my home directory. Deleted Both the cygwin and the download directories. Reinstalled from a different mirror. reloaded my home. Still problem. I found that flip -u does better job than dos2unix. - reverting back to 5.7-11 of

Re: Solution to using different usernames

I was able to achieve the desired result without modifiying /etc/passwd. What I did was expand /etc/profile.d/user.sh to: # use Windows's USERNAME variable USER=$USERNAME export USER HOME=/home/$USER export HOME Next I zeroed out /etc/passwd so it was a blank file. Combine these together and SSH

Re: Solution to using different usernames

Shouldn't there be a tool in Cygwin that will give you the SID? After all, it does have to read it too! I do like Sys Internals, but they add regkeys which I don't like. Also, isn't setting the SID a bit static? What would happen if I wanted to change usernames again? So I ask, is there a way to dy

Solution to using different usernames

My friend, Jeremy Bopp, let me know that if I use /etc/profile.d I could still get updates for /etc/profile unlike when you edit it directly (comment out USER="`id -un`"). I had to think of a way to change $USER from a different file so I came up with: # use Windows's USERNAME variable USER=$USERN

RE: upper limit to df reported available size?

gwin/2009-01/msg00863.html I realize it has less/no value to fixing. But I'm not sure how changing the others won't require *everything* (just about) to be recompiled anyway. Maybe you rename functions somehow? Thanks, - Jay -- Prob

control key stops working

trl-letter combinations print other funny characters. Any idea what's going on, what causes it, and/or how I can fix it? (Google didn't help me, but then I wasn't really sure what to Google for.) $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Jay-Foad-W7 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin

RE: resolving _glgetstr...@4 by linking to _glGetString

ne calling convention each) If you run link -dump -exports %windir%\system32\opengl32.dll, you'll see plain "glGetString".  There is no clear indication in the .dll that glGetString takes 4 bytes of parameters (maybe if you disassemble it...) The file -lopengl32 found though, conta

RE: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

On 64bit systems, /largeaddressaware gives 32bit processes 4GB of address space, and no need to boot with a special option (well, other than using a 64bit OS!). search for "largeaddressaware": http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/01/423817.asp

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

On 01/11/10 11:43 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:39:42AM -0500, Jay Heaslip wrote: After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running "git log": trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' trace: exec 'sh' f

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running "git log": trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' trace: exec 'sh' failed: No such file or directory I've attached my cygcheck output. Thanks, Jay Cygwin Configuration Di

1.7.1: probelms with git

Some of the git commands don't seem work. I able to "init" a git repository and check in changes, but commands like "git log" & "git diff" are not working. When I try to run them, they just return to the shell prompt without any output. Has anyone els

RE: running MS link.exe under Cygwin sshd?

> From: reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com > On 08/03/2009 12:11 AM, Jay K wrote: >> I found that Interix sshd and WinSSHD work ok here. >> So it is something specific to Cygwin. > Are you talking about password or public key authentication? If the > latter, Have you trie

RE: running MS link.exe under Cygwin sshd?

Friend also found freesshd works and will use that. So 3 out of 4 sshd work, Cygwin sshd is the only one that doesn't. - Jay [snip] -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

RE: running MS link.exe under Cygwin sshd?

I found that Interix sshd and WinSSHD work ok here. So it is something specific to Cygwin. - Jay > From: jay.kr...@cornell.edu > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: running MS link.exe under Cygwin sshd? > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 04:50:15 +000

running MS link.exe under Cygwin sshd?

everything goes downhill from there.Why VS feels the need to put the PDB access in a separate process under separate access rights is very puzzling, but there it is. " Bug in Cygwin sshd? - Jay -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

managing autoconf versions?

context? Or does one "wrapper" sniff the input or output and decide among the versions installed in a standard place? You know, like, input/or output could say # use autoconf 1.2.3 and then /usr/bin/autoconf could delegate to /usr/bin/autoconf-1.2.3 or such? Thanks, - Jay -- Unsubscribe i

1.5.25-Cygstart not showing visible window

ch? Have I missed something? Thanks in advance to anyone that can help. Jay Here's some info about my setup: Windows XP SP2 CYGWIN 1.5.25 BASH 3.2 CYGSTART 1.4 OpenSSH_5.1p1 OpenSSL 0.9.8j 07 Jan 2009 a script I tried also to no avial: # begin script #!/bin/bash # Dan Martin

RE: console scroll speed on Win XP

inst history feature that I haven't found elsewhere. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: jmp_buf size?

Thanks, sorry, I didn't see that. - Jay > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:49:50 -0500 > From: reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > CC: jay.kr...@cornell.edu > Subject: Re: jmp_buf size? > > Jay wrote: >

RE: jmp_buf size?

ealize that larger than needed is safe, "just" wasteful, and possibly "future proof". It still seems like a mistake. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

jmp_buf size?

What is up with the size of jmp_buf? It appears that setjmp.h confuses bytes and ints. _JBLEN should be 13, not 13*4. or #define _JBTYPE to char, but that doesn't work as easily. ? - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

many spurious equals sign in xterm?

This is x86 XP SP 3. I'm willing to clean install XP and/or Cygwin but... Thanks, - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: how to get mmap page size?

fixing that for Cygwin 1.7. OK, thanks. In the mean time I guess I'll just use a hard coded value of 4K for the page size in my application. Thanks, Jay. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: how to get mmap page size?

t (core dumped) This is a recent cygwin installation on XP Pro SP2. Thanks, Jay. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

how to get mmap page size?

em to be exposed to applications. I know that this has been discussed before, e.g. here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00747.html but I haven't found an answer to this particular question. Thanks, Jay. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: cygserver 1.5.25-15 slows down logoff

Maybe you need to call SetServiceStatus(SERVICE_STOPPED) or exit the process or something? What happens when you use net stop to stop the service? It stops reasonably fast, or not? - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

RE: Slow fork issue - Win x64

p to the speed of x86 would suffice. Wow64 is a fairly thin layer. It has to translate kernel calls, widening/narrowing integers/pointers and translating paths between "system32" and "syswow64". When your code is running without making kernel calls, it runs at fu

RE: Difficulty building gcc 4.3.2 under i386-pc-cygwin

es to configure. Such as the thread model. It seems to default to none instead of posix. But what I show above is an ok start. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwi

RE: building cygwin1.dll with gcc 4.3.2

rc/gcc/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc:3524: error: crosses initialization of 'fhandler_pipe* fh' # /src/gcc/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc:3529: error: jump to label 'err' # /src/gcc/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc:3501: error: from here # /src/gcc/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc:3524: error: crosses initialization of 'fhandler_pipe* fh' # ChangeLineInFile(" fhandler_pipe *fh = (fhandler_pipe *) cygheap->fdtab[fd];\n", " fhandler_pipe *fh;\n fh = (fhandler_pipe *) cygheap->fdtab[fd];\n", Source + "/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc") # # /src/gcc/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc:129: error: extra qualification 'pathlike::' on member 'check_existence' # /src/gcc/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc: In function 'int display_internet_error(const char*, ...)': # ChangeLineInFile(" void pathlike::check_existence (const char *fn, int showall, int verbose,\n", " void check_existence (const char *fn, int showall, int verbose,\n", Source + "/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc") # # In file included from /src/gcc/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc:30: # /src/gcc/winsup/cygwin/shared_info.h:98: error: extra qualification 'mount_info::' on member 'create_root_entry' # # This is fixed in the 8/27 snapshot. # ChangeLineInFile(" void mount_info::create_root_entry (const PWCHAR root);\n", " void create_root_entry (const PWCHAR root);\n", Source + "/winsup/cygwin/shared_info.h") - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

target=i686-pc-mingw32 fails building mingw32/winsup/cygserver.

ir/mingw; then AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(mingw) fi AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(w32api) I'll see if I can come up with a working patch, though my workaround of just using -B../../../gcc is much cheaper for me at this point. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?

t; objecting to. I don't yet know what it's there for, but it is vaguly also "strange stack stuff" since it seems to not want the stack in a particular range. > If it makes you nervous don't use it. Delete it from your system. This It seems the best way by fa

RE: why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?

t; objecting to. I don't yet know what it's there for, but it is vaguly also "strange stack stuff" since it seems to not want the stack in a particular range. > If it makes you nervous don't use it. Delete it from your system. This It seems the best way by fa

RE: Running 64bit processes from 32bit Cygwin

too much code hardcodes system32 and so it is a great porting convenience.. WinExec is an old function there for compatibility. You shouldn't use it. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?

>[jay] harder to port to other architectures, > [cgf] Cygwin works on all of the architectures that Windows NT+ supports. I mean really doing a native AMD64 and/or IA64 port, not just relying on the ability to run 32bit x86 code. Imho, that's cheating. > [jay] Why does

why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?

Why does Cygwin do such wierd stuff with the top of the stack? Is this to have thread locals faster than TlsGetValue offers? Is it worth it? (The cost: harder to LoadLibrary(cygwin1.dll), harder to port to other architectures, the strange path where DllMain "respawns", etc.)

RE: Probably stupid make question (cmd a=b)

ot;. Yes, but the alternative, using cmd, is much worse than having to install them. Perl can just be copied around, no need to "install" it. Python I haven't tried that yet. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: building cygwin1.dll with gcc 4.3.1

. I need to go build that compiler. The .dll seems to "basically" work. I can cd /obj/bash.1 make clean make Haven't waited for it to finish. using the dll: Huh? No /etc/fstab file in \??\D:\cygwin\etc\fstab.d\jay? Using default root a nd cygdrive prefix... bash: /usr/bin/

building cygwin1.dll with gcc 4.3.1

.cc:861: error: crosses in itialization of 'OBJECT_NAME_INFORMATION* ntfn' make[3]: *** [dtable.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/obj/cygwin.1/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin' make[2]: *** [cygwin] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/obj/cygwin.1/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup' mak

RE: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

em" interfaces traffic in Unicode. The referenced email describing 1.7 lists some special characters that are now allowed, but it doesn't mention question mark. Perhaps a good description would be LIKE: "all 8 bit characters except forward slash and nul"?? (or, whatever,

RE: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

? And that all the extraction happens before any install code runs. ? - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: ABI unification / non-x86 ports

you used the same headers. And for opaque types, assuming sizes match (e.g. FILE*), which are fed down to the same underlying layers. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: ABI unification / non-x86 ports

e, without specifying the size, and the other copies to or from it, can crash. It's a combinatorial explosion unfortunately. You are left trying to match up "as much as possible", not being certain what matters and what doesn't. Some folks (boost) provide .libs/.dlls built multi

re: ABI unification

me sort) to stat for it to check. It trusts that we agree. Anyway, given the errno.h mismatches, it's not possible without a breaking change. Perhaps this can be "fixed" for any non-x86 Cygwin port? I realize, it requires visiting several factors and it ultimately might not fl

RE: compilation - cygwin -mno-cygwin-flag

quot;thin translation layer", and even then. Reasonable for like stat, but not really for errno.h, for example. - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: flex: exec failed?

I'll patch my gmp/configure to not set M4 like this. I've reported this to gcc and gmp (gcc hits this because it configures gmp with cpu=none; usually building gmp sets M4=m4, which is "ok", though it really it should leave it alone.). - Jay > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: flex: exec failed?

ilename ? outfilename : ""); while (wait (0)> 0) ; again, I added the "2". Digging deeper... - Jay [snip snip snip] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: flex: exec failed?

as trying to run -- getenv("M4") and not just "m4". I'll follow up separately, at least gcc and gmp.. Still not completely solved. I do have a quick repro though, you can strip down the configure script a bunch and it repros in just a few seconds. Going through the strace logs

RE: flex: exec failed?

mments about thread unsafety in Cygwin's fork/exec code. My Python is single threaded (I was getting intermittent errors about unable to allocate locks). I'll have to put strace in there and focus in on it, instead of continuing to workaround. ..Jay > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

configuring the backspace key, etc. (un-indenting doesn't work with vim)

Oh man. Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.. Everyone uses stuff they don't understand all the time. I use my brain, lungs, cars, airplanes, compilers, linkers, kernels, interpreters, Cygwin, etc... I imagine I understand a lot, but... - Jay -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount)

> [J] jay > [C] corinna > Subject: Re: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount) > [J] configure:10596: > /obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin/build-i686-pc-cygwin/flex/flex > conftest.l > [J] strace: error creating process > D:\\obj/gcc.5/i686-pc-cyg

RE: cygwin Digest (multiple subjects)

d to use the cygwin1.dll, but I don't > understand how. I hope I can find some guidance here! Douglas, if I ignore the first part of your question, mentioning of openssl, and pay attention only to the desire to not require cygwin1.dll the answer would be to look into "mingwin&qu

RE: flex: exec failed? (root install/mount)

system, which I'd rather avoid. I know installing to the root is discouraged, but..agreed this is a bug? Should be fixed? It is easy to fix? I think so, on all counts. I'm sure I can provide a patch. The /cygdrive mounts must deal with this specially?? - Jay > From: [EMAIL PR

FW: flex: exec failed?

> > I have Cygwin installed to root, so that I can use all the same paths between > Cygwin and Windows, without requiring symlinks. This is otherwise, *a lot*, > working fine. > > (In particular, I used to symlink Cygwin /obj to Windows \obj and that mostly > works, but sy

RE: some setup problems

I have seen both these crashes several times, but now am unable to reproduce them. Oh well. - Jay > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: some setup problems > Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:34:25 + > > > I have found the following bugs all this e

some setup problems

d:\ instead of d:\net\cygwin once. I clicked next by accident. There is no way in the gui to cancel the big directory walk -- have to kill setup. Could be due to running under a debugger? - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > > According to Dave Korn on 1/11/2008 9:38 AM: > | I believe what is needed is 1) outer double-quotes, for cmd's benefit, 2) > | inner single-quotes, for bash's benefit, 3) double up the slashes /as well/, > | because there's one more level of quoting being str

Re: Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

> H:\>C:\cygwin\bin\bash -v -c 'UNC_PATH\\Dir' > > (actually only the first really needs to be doubled, because \ has > no special meaning if it's followed by a letter) > > Phil > > I'm getting the path from the registry via a right click menu and passing it into the bash -c command. But

Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

> That's still somewhat wasteful, starting bash just to get a vim alias - > why not use the full name gvim, and bypass the bash process to begin with? you right, i'm going to remove it, thanks. My main problem now is that for some reason the leading backslash on UNC names is getting dropped when

Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

> Whoa - it seldom makes sense to use -i and -c simultaneously - what good What i'm actually trying to do is have a right-click menu in windows so that when i right click on a file i can choose head from the context menu, and it will send the top 10 lines of the file to vim. I have gvim (windows

Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

> "It's because of the way the backslash is handled within double quotes." > > "info bash" may be of some help. > > cgf > > Thanks for the help. I read the info. Looks like i will have to pass the UNC path into a script and do the work there. Thanks again. -- Unsubscribe info: http:

need help with bash -c with cygpath

needs converted. Why do i get different results depending on how it is called? Thanks in advance. Jay. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Cron Issue

Here is the cronbug dumpI deleted a lot of the event log history to reduce the sizeIt's all the same error over and over again since it's running every 5 minutes... Thanks for your assistance Jay Barnhart OCP, Linux Certified SA, MPM 614-628-4854 Office 614-371-3891 C

Cron Issue

ing I've read most of the postings that I've seen on this issue and added permissions, created the dedicated cron_server account, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated, this has us stumped. Jay Barnhart OCP, Linux Certified SA, MPM 614-628-4854 Office 614-371-3891

Re: Apache how-to for cygwin

On 14 January 2007 21:30, Jay Abel wrote: I must have googled the wrong terms, Going to google in the first place was wrong. Cygwin comes with documentation, you only had to look as far as your own hard drive! /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/apache-1.3.33.README Got it thanks. I first looked in

Apache how-to for cygwin

iced while looking that httpd2 is available, should I be thinking about using that instead? That is, are there compelling reasons to switch (such as support being dropped for version 1 or significant improvements)? Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pro

Re: NTSEC documentation

Looks like this is now covered, but I'd still be happy to proofread and/or edit for spelling, grammar and for clarity by someone not intimately familiar with cygwin internals. - Original Message - From: "Jay Abel" To: the list Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:05

Re: NTSEC documentation

put me at number 10 on your list. If you don't get a number 1-9, I suppose I am it. Jay - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:18 AM Subject: NTSEC documentation Is anybody here with a deve

Re: can't start sshd

- Original Message - From: "Charles D. Russell" To: "cygwin cygwin" Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 9:22 AM Subject: Re: can't start sshd Windows event log shows only information events (id 0) from sshd, but /var /log/sshd.log showed: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or

Re: print from xfig

t survive the local network connection being repaired, disconnected, etc. I recommend creating an alias and/or command file. You might just do the dos version in your autoexec so that it works most of the time. Jay - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[E

Installing Cygwin on XP laptop part of a domain

connection" but that didn't help. Can someone who has experience installing Cygwin on a WinXP desktop part of a Windows Domain let me know what to do? Again, the only reason I am installing Cygwin is to run Unison. Thanks --Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

spaces in .bash_profile lead to "command not found"

There are 4 blank lines in my .bash_profile: == start file echo 'BEGIN ~/.bash_profile' export ANT_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Java/apache-ant-1.6.5' export JAVA_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Java/jdk1.5.0_08' export CLASSPATH='' export EDITOR='vim' export PATH="${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${ANT_HOME}/bi

Re: mount usb drive for all user

I've seen this with the removable CD ROM drive on my laptop. If I log in as another user, the CD ROM drive is not accessible. Seems the O/S decides on the basis of login time to whom it should give the device. If only one user is logged in, they get it. If two users are logged in, the first

Re: sshd error - Could not load host key

group or other have read write or execute access to them. Applies to both user and host keys. You may need to restart the sshd service after you've fixed the permissions, which you can do by typing: net stop sshd net start sshd HTH Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Loading cygwin libraries in Ruby from CMD?

ut Cygwin doesn't use ld.so.conf. Any ideas what I could look at to see why RMagick.so isn't being loaded? One interesting bit from strace is below - there's an error 126 (module not found), which is odd, because clearly it has found the file. Jay Levitt 80 1

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