Re: GNU Make 4.0.1 ??? infinite loop on startup

On 2013-11-02 12:36, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2013-10-27 14:51, Christopher Faylor wrote: I downloaded the source code for the above and ran into the problem pretty quickly. make was allocating an ever-increasing amount of memory due to a problem with the processing of eight bit characters with

Re: GNU Make 4.0.1 ??? infinite loop on startup

On 2013-10-27 14:51, Christopher Faylor wrote: I downloaded the source code for the above and ran into the problem pretty quickly. make was allocating an ever-increasing amount of memory due to a problem with the processing of eight bit characters with the high-bit set. That caused the characte

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: make-4.0-1 (x86 and x86_64)

On 2013-10-14 09:35, Andrey Repin wrote: I've tried this using both the 32-bit version and 64-bit version of cygwin 1.7.25 with the same results. Is this happens under mintty or native windows console? Both. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: make-4.0-1 (x86 and x86_64)

On 2013-10-11 13:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of make available for installation. This is a refresh against the newly released make-4.0. The appropriate contents of the NEWS file for this snapshot are below. [...] * New command line option: --output-sync (-O) enables

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: unison2.40, unison2.45

On 2012-12-10 11:49, Andrew Schulman wrote:> The Unison packages for Cygwin have been updated: > > unison2.40, unison2.45 - new upstream minor updates. Is there any chance you could release a 64-bit build of unison? I've been using the 64-bit build of cygwin for a couple weeks now, and the on

Re: SVN and executable permissions

On 2012-12-05 20:24, Burton Samograd wrote:> bartels writes: >>> Is there way to specify to svn on the command line or though a config >>> file that these types of files should automatically have executable >>> permissions? >> svn propset svn:executable "*" > Any idea why this has to be done wit

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

On 2012-06-27 14:17, David Rothenberger wrote: Anyway, I'll have a new release available shortly built against the latest SQLite package, so others that want to use TortoiseSVN can try it. I just upgraded to the -5 package, and turned the TSVN icon caching back on, and it very quickly failed i

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

On 2012-06-19 05:29, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: $ svn up Updating '.': svn: E200030: disk I/O error, executing statement 'RELEASE s6' svn: E200030: sqlite: unable to open database file svn: E200030: sqlite: unable to open database file $ svn cleanup sv

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

On 2012-06-15 06:37, Warren Young wrote: It is indeed AV related -- a race between SQLite and AV That's one possibility, but check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11007024/ tl;dr: someone made the problem go away by rolling my recent 3.7.12 release back to the prior 3.7.3 ve

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

On 2012-06-15 06:37, Warren Young wrote: On 6/14/2012 4:00 PM, Garrison, Jim (ETW) wrote: Why would you think that a disk I/O error was either anti-virus or Cygwin related and not... a disk I/O error? Have you looked in your event logs for errors? It is indeed AV related -- a race between SQL

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

On 2012-06-14 15:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 03:48:05PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: $ svn cleanup svn: E200030: disk I/O error, executing statement 'RELEASE s79' Sometimes the errors happen, sometimes not. It seems to be about 50% of the time svn has th

cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

Recently, I've noticed cygwin svn getting a LOT of errors during operations. I think this started when upgrading from 1.7.14 to 1.7.15, but I can't say for sure. The nature of these errors are as follows: $ svn up Updating '.': svn: E200030: disk I/O error, executing statement 'RELEASE s6'

Re: v1.7.10 -- forked process died unexpectedly

On 2012-02-08 11:41, marco atzeri wrote: > On 2/8/2012 5:30 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote: >> I get these sporadic failures in my build system after upgrading to >> 1.7.10. I can't reproduce these consistently, seems to happen randomly >> every few dozen builds. >> >&

v1.7.10 -- forked process died unexpectedly

C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX C:\Program Files\ActivIdentity\ActivClient C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0 C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe UID: 1009(Rolf) GID: 513(None) 513

Re: cron

Hello again, problem solved! I regenerated my /etc/passwd and configured cron to run as "me". Please ignore my request. Rolf Am 10.01.2012 22:25, schrieb Rolf Schlagenhaft: Hello, after updating to cygwin 1.7, I can't get cron running again. I tried all kind of differen

Re: Using texi2pdf

reas Hi Andreas, I happened to generate some texinfo manuals in pdf format lately. For me it is working: $ texi2pdf --verbose gccintro.texi /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing gccintro.texi ... /usr/bin/texi2dvi: BIBINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::' /usr/bin/texi2d

Re: automated cygwin install

On 2011-09-09 09:52, Andrew Schulman wrote: In a new installation, we have to write an (ugh) MSDOS CMD script, since bash isn't available. One way around that would be to install just the base, then run a bash script, but I decided to bite the bullet and write a CMD script that would do it all

Can't install from ports server (Was: Re: Debug info broken for gcc-4.5.0 (experimental))

On 2011-07-06 04:29, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: GCC 4.5.3 and GDB 7.2 are available in Ports in the meantime. Yaakov I don't know who maintains the ports server, but when I try to use the instructions on http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ , and use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cygwin-ports

Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

On 2011-06-24 11:44, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: Marco atzeri wrote: you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a windows path ... On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces. $ cygpath

Re: fdisk on cygwin

On 2011-06-17 10:27, PRASANTH RAJAGOPAL wrote: Here is my mount info: *J* is the SD card in SD slot and& *K* is the USB stick. PRajagop@PRAJAGOP-L02 /proc $ cat mounts D:/CYgWin/bin /usr/bin ntfs binary,auto 1 1 D:/CYgWin/lib /usr/lib ntfs binary,auto 1 1 D:/CYgWin / ntfs binary,auto 1 1 C: /c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11

On 2010-04-17 11:57, Charles Wilson wrote: On 4/17/2010 10:42 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote: > This release will not compress a file with multiple hard links, even when "forced". I'm running an NTFS drive, and my source file has 2 hard-links to it. Running "xz -9evf

Re: cygcheck bug: symlinks with unix paths are wrongly resolved

On 2010-10-19 19:17, Arseny Slobodyuk wrote: [snip...] a...@dstar ~ $ ln -s `which cmd.exe` cmd.exe a...@dstar ~ $ cygcheck ./cmd.exe -> D:\OTHERBIN\cygwin\cygdrive\d\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe cygcheck: could not find './cmd.exe' cygcheck is not a cygwin application, it's a native windows ap

1.7.7 ln & .exe magic

test case--- From bash, in an empty directory: $ ln /bin/ls t $ ls t.exe Why does the resulting hard link have a '.exe' suffix on it? I thought that cygwin .exe magic was only appending when listing a file? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/probl

Re: Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7

On 2010-09-01 04:00, Harie Ram wrote: The issue that I am currently facing is : the modify permissions given to the INSTALLDIR "C:\Cygwin" using the msi lock permission table is being inherited through all the subfolders and files. Any new manually created folders and files anywhere within C:\Cyg

Re: associating device names with cygdrive directories

On 2010-08-26 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have another one: $ for F in /dev/s* ; do echo "$F$(cygpath -w $F)" ; done /dev/sda\\.\PhysicalDrive0 /dev/sda1 \\.\STORAGE#Volume#{781f8bd6-7d0d-11de-8012-806e6f6e6963}#0010#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

On 2010-08-23 09:57, Fergus wrote: Somehow diff identifies differences in two identical binary files. In the following example two duplicate files are located (i) in my home directory (/m/home/user) and (ii) at the root of a different drive (D:). [snip] ~> diff -s INTERVAL.pdf /d/INTERVAL.pdf

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

On 2010-08-20 07:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks for the new strace. After some more experimenting I was finally able to reproduce the issue. The other problem you reported, about df(*), lead me onto the right track. I've checked my changes in to CVS. For testing I provided another test DL

cygwin 1.7.6: df shows wrong (different?) drive information

When I run "df -h " where dir is part of a native-NTFS-mounted-drive, then df prints details about the root drive (not the mounted drive). This acts differently if the drive is *also* mounted as a separate top-level drive. In that case, if you specify the mount point itself, it prints inform

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

On 2010-08-19 18:37, Andrey Repin wrote: If ATI is the junction (reparse point, or however you call it) to a top-level directory on another partition, this behavior could be explained by "exiting through the window": process enter the partition from the doors (junction), dig it, then trying to ex

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

On 2010-08-19 12:28, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/19/2010 08:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hmm, digging through Cygwin's readdir code, I have a vague idea. Eric, does find honor the struct dirent d_type flag? I'm wondering if d_type is erroneously set to DT_REG for some reason. If so, we could fi

Re: Should mintty's copy-on-select option be on by default?

On 2010-07-29 08:02, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 July 2010 08:24, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: Thank you for all the answers to my original request below. This was very instructive. In conclusion: - to get middle-mouse paste of the selection with Mintty, Options/Mouse/copy on select had to be checked

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

On 2010-05-13 17:13, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2010-05-13 16:45, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/13/2010 4:31 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote: New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. I've been

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

On 2010-05-13 16:45, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/13/2010 4:31 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote: New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. I've been using the native W32 port of emacs for yea

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote: New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. I've been using the native W32 port of emacs for years. I tried using the native cygwin build of it and ran into a problem: I can't seem to

Re: cygwin with microsoft remote desktop

On 2010-05-02 06:57, Eric Friedman wrote: Hi all, I am using windows remote desktop to access cygwin on a remote machine with a disk on my local computer remote mounted, via remote desktop. On the remote machine this disk shows up under my computer but is not assigned a drive letter. How do I a

Re: ImageMagick shared libraries missing?

On 2010-04-22 01:37, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: On 4/21/2010 11:17 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: 'cygcheck montage' and 'cygcheck convert' should tell you the missing DLLs. Then use or 'cygcheck -p /bin/foo.dll' to find the package to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11

On 2010-04-11 11:54, Charles Wilson wrote: This is routine update to a more recent git snapshot. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] CHANGES (since 4.999.9beta-10) o Update to 2010-Apr-01 git snapshot Wed Mar 31 16:47:25 2010 +0300 a1f7a986b8d708f9290da9799ca1b8d7082

1.7.3: remote bash process left after ssh connection dropped

I run an ssh session between two machines which auto-reconnects when the connection is dropped (it's really just a bash while look that calls ssh). My problem is that after a while, I get an error about being unable to create a tty on the remote system (I'm sorry, but I don't have the exact wo

Re: often does not successfully exit rxvt and close it down

On 2010-03-31 04:50, Fergus wrote: >> fails to close down an rxvt terminal window >> and I am left with the terminal window showing >> $ exit >> and not shutting down. > The incidence of failures is today about 80%. > Anybody else? 1 Now indistinguishably close to 100% but not actually g

Re: 1.7.1: terminal not passing Ctrl-C to sub-sub cygwin processes

On 2010-01-15 18:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:00:37PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: From within cygwin python, if I call os.system running a cygwin sub-process, and I hit Ctrl-C while that cygwin sub-process is running, the Ctrl-C does nothing (absolutely nothing

1.7.1: terminal not passing Ctrl-C to sub-sub cygwin processes

From within cygwin python, if I call os.system running a cygwin sub-process, and I hit Ctrl-C while that cygwin sub-process is running, the Ctrl-C does nothing (absolutely nothing -- nothing is printed, nothing terminates, no sound is made -- it's as if I didn't press the key at all). I've at

Re: Problems with cygwin bash shell under NT Emacs

Will writes > I don't know if there's one specifically for NTEmacs, but gnu.emacs.help > answers NTEmacs questions. Thx for the pointer. Haven't thought about it. -- Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: Problems with cygwin bash shell under NT Emacs

this works for me. Yes, works for me too. I just love simple solutions for nagging problems. Thx a lot! -- Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FA

Re: Problems with cygwin bash shell under NT Emacs

your reference. Python just seems to be the only cygwin binary my bash can't handle. Thats driving me nuts -- Rolf -- 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: Problems with cygwin bash shell under NT Emacs

and I haven't bothered to change that. Maybe now is a good time -- Rolf -- 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: Un-attended install ALL

Vinod K Gupta wrote: We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on user machines. When we perform un-attended installation using setup.exe -q -L -l -R... the installer installs only the Base packages. How can we tell setup to install ALL available packages? Vinod

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

Malcolm Nixon wrote: * Some translate files to a "Local" format (CR/LF on Windows). FCOL, what on earth does an rcs think it's playing at, tampering with your data? Any rcs that doesn't give you back exactly what you put into it is just plain buggy. Nobody asked for a "automatically mangl

Re: simply cygwin1.dll

When I've had this problem, it's been a permission issue. If you use wget or some other cygwin tool to download the snapshot, then it will not set the exec permissions. But when you copy a file using explorer, it will set the exec permissions. Christopher Layne wrote: May seem sort of newbi

Re: coreutils 5.97; mkdir -p; mkdir: cannot create directory `name': File exists

Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Rolf Campbell I believe there is a race-condition in "mkdir -p". Specifically, if the directory does not exist *yet* when stat is called on line #98 of "coreutils-5.97/lib/mkdir-p.c", but the directory

coreutils 5.97; mkdir -p; mkdir: cannot create directory `name': File exists

I believe there is a race-condition in "mkdir -p". Specifically, if the directory does not exist *yet* when stat is called on line #98 of "coreutils-5.97/lib/mkdir-p.c", but the directory *does* exist by the time line #190 of the same file calls mkdir(), then the program will error with "File

Re: cygwin1.dll possible bug

Gland Vador wrote: Eric Blake wrote: What about the newest one? I have tried almost all snapshots available on this page. I went until the oldest in order to track on which snapshot it broke. The newest one doesn't work for me. When I launch a dos batch file in the bash, it tries to execut

1.5.20s (20060206): Ctrl+C, rxvt and non-cygwin programs

while ago (whatever that means). It is not limited to strace, it seems to happen with any non-cygwin program. -Rolf Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Feb 07 14:56:16 2006 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\

Re: how to get a coredump [was RE: Asterisk Cygwin]

Christopher Faylor wrote: Add "error_start:/usr/bin/dumper.exe" to your CYGWIN environment variable. Is there a reason why this isn't the default? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: h

Re: 1.5.12 ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: As I've said before, . This result from the search I suggested looks promising, if only to get the setup options: . See also /var/log/setup.log after "setup --help" (yes, it

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

Herb Martin wrote: I didn't install Exim 4.54 into another location; someone else mentioned an alternate locationa and I (perhaps incorrectly) mentioned that I had downloaded and compiled it FROM another location. The "make install" was run normally and the specially compiled (make options) is i

cygrunsrv --list "Access is denied" (Was: Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced)

Eric Blake wrote: I use this handy little script on my machine to help me stop (and restart) all services: $ cat serv #!/bin/bash usage='serv: manage cygwin services during cygwin upgrades usage: serv {--help|--stop|--start}' case $# in 1) case $1 in --help|-h) echo "$usage"; exit 0 ;; --st

Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

Eric Blake wrote: I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same issue. When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k, the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an instance of

Re: sshd install problems | WinXP Pro system

Evan Cooch wrote: > 2. modifed the env variables by adding a variable named CYGWIN with > value ntsec tty Not necessary. Then why is it specified in http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html Because that web page is wrong, that's why. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#un

Re: man, info fail me in cygwin 1.5.18. Thanks, it works

lunteer cygwin bash maintainer - Executing /etc/postinstall/00bash.sh.done worked wonders. - "in-use files": Cygwin was closed when I reinstalled and it never asked for a reboot. - "the solution is to rerun setup.exe".Oddly, when I did that (or do it now) I only

Re: 1.5.18-1: /bin/cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService: Win32 error 5:,Access is denied.

Brian Dessent wrote: Larry Hall wrote: $ cygrunsrv -L cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService: Win32 error 5: Access is denied. OK, as expected. Are you performing this operation over an ssh connection using pubkey authentication? If so and you're not also logged into this machine

Re: 1.5.18-1: /bin/cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService: Win32 error 5:,Access is denied.

Larry Hall wrote: At 01:27 PM 7/19/2005, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 10:55 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 10:34 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote: When I run "cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.txt" I get that error message on stderr. Is that anything to be concerned with? No, not really.

Re: 1.5.18-1: /bin/cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService: Win32 error 5:,Access is denied.

Larry Hall wrote: At 10:55 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 10:34 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote: When I run "cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.txt" I get that error message on stderr. Is that anything to be concerned with? No, not really. Do you have any Cygwin services installed? Yes, I do.

Re: 1.5.18-1: /bin/cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService: Win32 error 5:,Access is denied.

Larry Hall wrote: At 10:34 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote: When I run "cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.txt" I get that error message on stderr. Is that anything to be concerned with? No, not really. Do you have any Cygwin services installed? Yes, I do. I'm running sshd. -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Unison 2.10.2 fast update check broken?

Rolf Campbell wrote: Marcus Picasso wrote: Seems that Cygwin port of the unison file synchronizer does not do the -fastcheck very well. Transcript follows: ... Can somebody confirm / explain this behaviour? I have a large tree that I'm synchronizing across two hard-disks, an

1.5.18-1: /bin/cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService: Win32 error 5:,Access is denied.

When I run "cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.txt" I get that error message on stderr. Is that anything to be concerned with? Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Jul 19 10:31:32 2005 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin

Re: 1.5.17: chroot-ed make adds // to ${MAKE}

Rolf Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to do a chroot-ed make which uses the content of the ${MAKE} > variable. What I'm finding is the value of ${MAKE} has two slashes '//' > at the beginning, so any attempt to use it failes (looks like a network > share). > &

1.5.17: chroot-ed make adds // to ${MAKE}

I'm trying to do a chroot-ed make which uses the content of the ${MAKE} variable. What I'm finding is the value of ${MAKE} has two slashes '//' at the beginning, so any attempt to use it failes (looks like a network share). I've created a directory, expanded cygwin-1.5.17-1.tar.bz2 into it, t

Re: Unison 2.10.2 fast update check broken?

Marcus Picasso wrote: Seems that Cygwin port of the unison file synchronizer does not do the -fastcheck very well. Transcript follows: ... Can somebody confirm / explain this behaviour? I have a large tree that I'm synchronizing across two hard-disks, and got suspicious when re-running synchronizat

exp. gcc-ada-3.4.1-1 does not support -mno-cygwin

.a and not with the mingw libgnat.a. Is that a problem of gcc itself (and I should report that as a bug in the gcc problem database) or is it a configuration problem (and a cygwin problem) or is it a user problem (i.e. I did something wrong, most probably)? Rolf $ cygcheck -s -v -r | grep gc

rsync throttling (Was: children of init ignore STOP and CONT signals)

Sam Inala wrote: Cygwin 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) on W2K SP4 Not all signals are ignored. The TERM and INT signals correctly terminate the process. I would like to send STOP and CONT to throttle the CPU usage of a rsync process. I want to avoid spawning a bash process to start rsync because it is starte

Re: gmake -r -p -n problem on fast computers: erroneous thread activa tion

Upgrade your cygwin to the newest snapshot, that has that problem fixed. Guerte Yves-r57319 wrote: Hi, I have problems with gmake on the new computers I use (and not with the same Cygwin version with older computers). I do gmake -r -p -n and parse the output to get some variables content. The

Re: hyperthreading fix try #2

roblems that I can't reproduce. cgf My "make -j" test has been running for a while with no failures, and beyond that, this seems to fix a long-standing problem for me having to do with more excessive parallelization "make -j100" issues. -Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

CV wrote: Rolf Campbell gmail.com> writes: CV wrote: after 700 to 1000 files bash hangs with the following error message: 2 [exiting thread] bash 3328 cygthread::stub: erroneous thread activation, name is NULL And it appears I spoke too early before. I too, still see a problem: 1

Re: 20050208 hyperthreading bug is back ?

-hour build, I get that error message and things grind to a halt. -Rolf -- 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/

20050208 snapshot = yay! (Was: Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1)

Rolf Campbell wrote: This test does fail (in the same way) on non-hyperthreaded machines (Win2000Pro on a PIII). But, this is a regression from 1.5.12 (that test runs fine on the non-HT machine with 1.5.12. There was (maybe still is) a problem with running "make -j" without th

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

Volker Bandke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf, a) Your test case fails on my machine as well, right at the beginning b) I seem to remember that there was/is a separate problem with "make - -j", even on non-hyperthreasd machines. Unfortunately I can

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] Anyway, I took a look at the pipe handling code for the 457th time and this time I saw a couple of obvious flaws in my logic. The synchronization was all off. Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have run three invocations of the scripts fo

Re: update on hyperthreading system for cgf

sktop connection. So, at this point, I would believe that any HT machine running at least WinXP would show the problem. -Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: ls /dev/*

ccess the disks as real devices under NT/2000/XP using some strange notation. It might make sense to mount those under /dev/, but to mount your C-drive there would not be consistant with what /dev/ was designed for. -Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56 Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find the usa

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:26:58AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: An rsync session that consistantly works on the Oct 7 snapshot fails consistantly on the Oct 10 snapshot. Try it with the October 20 snapshot. I had the same problem with rsync (although I would have sworn

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

actually transfer (all the time-stamps are the same). I've tried it about 5 times on each snapshot on each machine, with very reproducable results. -Rolf Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Oct 19 00:18:03 2004 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack

Re: Compilation errors not shown properly in Cygwin

Rajagopalan, Karthik wrote: Hi Cygwin_Techies, I have been trying to install working packages of Cygwin for our current project but fails in every attempt with some issues. Currently I find the Cygwin doesn't report the compilation errors from Microsoft Visual Studio C Compiler. Let me explain t

Basic C/C++ (Was: 1.5.10: problems relocating structures with function pointers)

Justin Schoeman wrote: I have discovered what may be a bug in the linker/relocater in cygwin (or, more likely, I am doing something stupid again). When I use a structure containing function pointers, and this structure is placed in an archive, then the function pointer becomes NULL. As an examp

Re: Extending long threads

GARY VANSICKLE wrote: There's three reasons people knee-jerk against HTML email: 1. It isn't ASCII (i.e. the "Back in my day a child would open up a gift and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb! That's the way it was and we liked it!"[1] Defense). 2a. There isn't an email

Re: two instances of a.exe on dual processor - still only 50% performance

Ken Thompson wrote: At 01:24 PM 7/7/2004, Rolf Campbell wrote: Sorry Brian, that is bogus. I'm running one HT processor right now. The combined CPU utilization is not an actual display of usage, but theoretical usage, based on scheduling. It's really how much of the CPU was NOT bei

Re: two instances of a.exe on dual processor - still only 50% performance

le to run at all on either virtual cpu. Thus Task Manager will (and does) show 100% dual CPU utilization. Now, Mathias's problem: Sounds like your program is bound by something other than CPU. If you have two programs that try to access the hard-disk, they are not going to be twice as fa

1.5.10-3: make -j6: read jobs pipe: No such file or directory. Stop.

ipe: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs Failed after 606 runs -Rolf Cygwin Configuration Diagno

Re: /bin/rm lots of files

I suspect this is a command-line too long problem, but I can't say for sure since you didn't really provide any details. If I'm correct, then you cannot change the limit easily. You should either delete the files in smaller lists, or if you are trying to delete all files in a directory you ca

Re: recompiling cygwin dll problems

Christopher Faylor wrote: Bingo! I guess I should have put an "and" in my first two statements. You can only have *1* DLL built from the Cygwin source resident and running at any one time. It wasn't clear to me that this is what you were doing, otherwise I would have told you that this is a no-

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

Christopher Faylor wrote: FWIW, I found ANOTHER race yesterday while running the cygwin test suite. So, it's back to square one for testing since it was in low level code which could affect everything. And, this race has been there since I screwed up in September 2001. Lovely. Well, I can't brea

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

Christopher Faylor wrote: I have been running the "make -j" cygwin breaker for about ten hours now with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. I'm sure this is just because of the magical way in which I have my system set up but could anyone confirm or deny whether that this snapshot behav

Re: Using gcc 3.3.3

Building gcc (natively) always requires a working gcc to be present, how else would it compile itself? Ben Taylor wrote: What I don't get is why when I built 3.3.3 using 'make' and then 'make install' (it failed to do 'make bootstrap') it relied on the fact that cygwin was installed in the first

Re: Snapshot 20040306: make hangs

rning 1 in the last 150 lines of stace output. What is signal 20 anyway? I see it get 'not delivered' in the success runs too, but never so close to the end (1000's of lines up from the end). -Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: please try the latest snapshot

tried using "/bin/kill -f pid", and the return code from the make process was 0, so the script kept going). -Rolf -- 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: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

shot, froze after 128 iterations (0% cpu, no error output). I've attached the end of the strace output. I will run it a few more times to make sure this is consistant. -Rolf ** Program name: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe (2884) 248 43520 [main] uname

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

Stop." grep'ing through the make source (which I was unable to compile) I see that this can happen when malloc returns NULL (makes sense from the message), and I can say that my machine has plenty of memory left. 1Gig of ram, and my commit charge never exheaded 500Megs during the wh

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

tell strace to mimic the return code of it's inferior process? -Rolf -- 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: gcc 2.95

gcc version 3.3 works fine, gcc v2.95 was broken on cygwin and nobody wanted to fix it, so it was discontinued. Erick Castillo wrote: Need to install gcc 2.95 on the latest cygwin release. gcc version 3.3... does not work properly. Where could i find 2.95 if not through the simple cygwin instal

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

I can reproduce with that snapshot, but I get slightly different results. Here is the stderr output from 1052 runs, but the strange thing is that even when I get errors, the task continues to run. It seems somehow that the return code of the errored run gets lost or something. This is differ

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