Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 2 12:20, Brian Dessent wrote: > I'm not sure if the "SYSTEM user > has mounts" issue would come up enough to warrant checking for it, > because I can't really think of how that would come to happen. I don't think this is really still an issue. AFAIR, the mounts in the HKU/S-1-5-18 area

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: run, Updated: X-startup-scripts, X-start-menu-icons

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
INFO The run utility has been moved from X-startup-scripts to a new package. run.exe will start console programs and hide their console. This is useful for creating desktop shortcuts to XWin, xterm or using ssh for windows ssh clients. The X-startup-scripts and X-start-menu-icons packages

WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Informações
Hey All, I'm seriously interested in making the WINESERVER work under Cygwin and have been invistigating some of the issues related to this matter. One of the WineHQ developers informed me that: "... the last time someone tried, the main obstacle was that cygwin doesn't support send

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 3 11:08, Informa??es wrote: >Hey All, > >I'm seriously interested in making the WINESERVER work under Cygwin and > have been invistigating some of the issues related to this matter. One of > the WineHQ developers informed me that: > >"... the last time someone tried, the mai

Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:00:00AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:49:50PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >>Hi! >> >>(snip) No, talktome has nothing to do with wait. That's the interface which is called when (among other things) you look at things in /proc. >>>

Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo

2005-11-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
(snip) > Corinna has informed me that I added the debugging output to the wrong place > so I'm generating a new snapshot with the right debugging. Please use the > November 3 snapshot in your tests. Just FYI, I tried the 20051102 snapshot and strace doesn't seem to work at all in that version. Fo

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Informações wrote: Hey All, I'm seriously interested in making the WINESERVER work under Cygwin and have been invistigating some of the issues related to this matter. One of the WineHQ developers informed me that: "... the last time someone tried, the main obstacle was that cygwin

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running > Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under > Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a > Windows apps, well then just ru

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Andy Moreton
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:00:51 GMT, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running >> Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under >> Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Moreton wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:00:51 GMT, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > >> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:41 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >>> I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running >>> Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under >>> Cygwi

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: > > Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and > > windows. You could trace all registry or file access of a program. Wine > > would be useful for remote program usage since it exports the display > > via X11. > > Thi

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > Well, how about sandboxing? It's the ideal way to test out a virus or other > suspect warez: run it on a virtual machine where it can't escape into your > real one. But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of protection. You would need Xen / VMWare /

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Well, how about sandboxing? It's the ideal way to test out a virus or >> other suspect warez: run it on a virtual machine where it can't escape >> into your real one. > > But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of > protecti

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > > But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of > > protection. You would need Xen / VMWare / etc for that. > > Oh, I stand corrected. You mean it doesn't even do > virtual-drive-in-a-file-on-the-real-HD then? That's a shame. Well, considering WINE s

RE: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Dave Korn
Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >>> But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of >>> protection. You would need Xen / VMWare / etc for that. >> >> Oh, I stand corrected. You mean it doesn't even do >> virtual-drive-in-a-file-on-the-real-HD then? That's a sham

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Smith
I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under Cygwin as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a Windows apps, well then just run the Windows app! Well how about to support WINE development?

Bug: regtool does not fully display REG_MULTI_SZ values that contain a zero-length component

2005-11-03 Thread Max Bowsher
When printing out a a REG_MULTI_SZ, regtool stops printing at the first \0\0 sequence encountered. However, if the multi-string contains a zero-length element, a \0\0 sequence will be encountered before the end of the data. regtool should use the length value returned from the registry query ca

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 11/3/05, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: > > > > Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and > > > windows. You could trace all registry or file access of a program. Wine > > > would be useful for remot

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: >On 11/3/05, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between the program and windows. You could trace all registry or file

Cygwin 1.5.18 and //./PhysicalDrive??

2005-11-03 Thread Loh, Joe
Folks, Since updating the Cygwin 1.5.18, we started seeing problem similar to the what "dd" is experiencing. The previous Cygwin DLL we used was Cygwin 1.5.16, at that works flawlessly. Is anyone out there experiencing the same issue? I have reverted back to the Cygwin 1.5.16 and everything star

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 11/3/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: > >On 11/3/05, Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Moreton wrote: > Sometimes it's useful to have a separation between t

Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo

2005-11-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
emptydir.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/nix $ strace ls [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/nix $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Macros 1.5.19s(0.141/4/2) 20051103 10:52:21 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913

BUG: Binutils strip corrupts dll files when using cygwin 1.5.18 and latest snapshot (20051103)

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Rehley
Hi, After compiling a snapshot, I tried to strip the cygwin1.dll using the binutils strip command. After I did this I started seeing this windows dialog box appear: "ls.exe - Bad Image The application or DLL F:\cygwin\home\peter\tmp\cygwin1.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please chec

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Schaap
On 20-Oct-2005 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Christoph Jeksa wrote: > >> there is a bug in this version: >> >> Supposed, you have a file X.sh ( exactly in this spelling ). If you >> enter: >> >> vim x.sh ( also exactly in this spelling ) >> >> and

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

2005-11-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Michael Schaap wrote: > On 20-Oct-2005 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Christoph Jeksa wrote: > > > >> there is a bug in this version: > >> > >> Supposed, you have a file X.sh ( exactly in this spelling ). If you > >> enter: > >>

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Schaap
On 4-Nov-2005 1:49, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Michael Schaap wrote: > > >> On 20-Oct-2005 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Christoph Jeksa wrote: >>> >>> there is a bug in this version: Supposed, you

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:25:17PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: >It would seem to me that making an arbitrary window application use >X11 to draw its windows would involve cygwin. Not necessarily. >I recognize that as moderator, it's your call. If you say nothing more >on it, nor shall I. > >Would i

Re: BUG: Binutils strip corrupts dll files when using cygwin 1.5.18 and latest snapshot (20051103)

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:17:57PM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote: >After compiling a snapshot, I tried to strip the cygwin1.dll using >the binutils strip command. After I did this I started seeing this >windows dialog box appear: > >"ls.exe - Bad Image This is not a bug. You can't strip the DLL

Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
'll try the 03 snap when it arrives. > >Still nothing. strace even eats the regular output: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/nix >$ ls >emptydir.txt > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/nix >$ strace ls > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/nix >$ uname -a >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Macros 1.5.19s(

alternatives

2005-11-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
/sbin/alternatives --config automake failed to read /var/lib/alternatives/automake: No error This is with snapshot 20051103 21:02:10, but this is the first time I've ever tried to use alternatives, so that could have nothing to do with anything. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: