[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.9-1

2011-03-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.9-1. This is mainly a bug fix release. New since Cygwin 1.7.8: === - New API: strchrnul. Changes since Cygwin 1.7.8: === - Slightly speed up file access when creating new files. - Move the call to

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dante Allegria (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT)) > No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly > build scripts: >rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/* > > Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :) Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" an

latest emacs, cygwin, and constant stackdumps

2011-03-29 Thread J. David Boyd
I'm not certain of the exact version of these, but they are the latest, as I upgrade at least once a week. Lately, everytime I do almost anything in emacs, the terminal I started it from shows: [main] emacs-X11 4500 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 1149 [main] emacs-X11 4500

Re: latest emacs, cygwin, and constant stackdumps

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/29/2011 8:48 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: I'm not certain of the exact version of these, but they are the latest, as I upgrade at least once a week. Lately, everytime I do almost anything in emacs, the terminal I started it from shows: [main] emacs-X11 4500 exception::handle: Exception: STATU

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Dante Allegria
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" and it > includes setting "errexit" and "nounset" in bash or Z Shell. > If you are scripting > and not using those above, then you got exactly what you > deserved. Thanks for the tip, Thorsten! Any ideas what the best prac

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/03/2011 02:24, Daniel Jensen wrote: > Since Dave Korn was wondering how many people this would be bothering, > I'm just chiming in to say I was bitten by this too (since I both run > cygwin setup less often than others and use octave less often than > others, and since I'm not subscribed to t

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/29/2011 08:30, Dante Allegria wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" and it >> includes setting "errexit" and "nounset" in bash or Z Shell. >> If you are scripting >> and not using those above, then you got exactly what you >> deserved. > > Thank

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Dante Allegria (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT)) >> No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly >> build scripts: >>rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/* >> >> Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :) > >

Re: latest emacs, cygwin, and constant stackdumps

2011-03-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/29/2011 9:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2011 8:48 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: I'm not certain of the exact version of these, but they are the latest, as I upgrade at least once a week. Lately, everytime I do almost anything in emacs, the terminal I started it from shows: [main] emacs-X11

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) > On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > As for "rm", it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and > that's what the -f option is for - it turns them off. As far as I know "-f" is already the default... Thorsten -- Problem reports

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) >> On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> As for "rm", it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and >> that's what the -f option is for - it turns them off. > >As far a

RE: ICMP: Unknown Protocol

2011-03-29 Thread Gary Furash
1. When I run "/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Cygwin/bin/ping" 127.1.1.1 it returns "icmp: unknown protocol" 2. When I run "/cygdrive/c/progra~1/cygwin/bin/sftp.exe" furashg@10.140.5.9 I get ssh_connect: getnameinfo failed ssh: connect to host 10.140.5.9 port 22: Operation not permitted Connection clos

Re: Python numpy module is broken

2011-03-29 Thread Mark Hadfield
> It should have worked.. as long as you remembered to downgrade libgfortran > rather than gcc4-gfortran... Yes, that was it. Fixed now. Thanks. -- Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou" m.hadfi...@niwa.co.nz NIWA -- Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei,

Re: libgfortran3 respin : status and problem

2011-03-29 Thread marco atzeri
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:43 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 07:43 +0200, marco atzeri wrote: >>> which lapack ? 3.2.2-1 of distro ? >> >> 3.2.2 rebuilt with cygwin 1.7.8 and Ports' gcc 4.5.2-2. >> >> >> Yaakov >> > > Th

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/03/2011 16:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) >>> On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> As for "rm", it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and >>> that's what

mkgroup: Could not get group info from samba share

2011-03-29 Thread Christian Gelinek
Hi everyone! In my network, I've got a samba server running on a linux machine and I would like to get the correct user and group names under Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.8(0.236/5/3) 2011-03-01 09:36) under Windows 7 (Windows 7 Professional N Ver 6.1 Build 7600). Eventually, I found a very he

SIGFPE in CVS HEAD

2011-03-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Corinna, One of your changes post-1.7.9 is causing a SIGFPE in the DLL: $ cat test.c #include int main(void) { sleep(1); return 0; } $ gcc -o test test.c $ ./test Floating point exception $ gdb ./test GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2 [snip] (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/src/src/winsup/cygwin/test [New Th

Re: SIGFPE in CVS HEAD

2011-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:05:58PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >Corinna, > >One of your changes post-1.7.9 is causing a SIGFPE in the DLL: > >$ cat test.c >#include >int main(void) { sleep(1); return 0; } > >$ gcc -o test test.c > >$ ./test >Floating point exception > >$ gdb ./test >GNU gdb (G