[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ascii-3.11-1

The ascii package has been added to the Cygwin distribution, replacing
the command previously provided by cygutils.  The standalone version has
more options than before, as documented in the accompanying manpage.

-- 

Yaakov
Cygwin/X

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.4.8-1

Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin
platform. This is a content update and feature enhancement.

[[ compiled using gcc-4.5.3-3 ]]

CHANGES (from cygutils-1.4.6-1)
================================
* Integrate cygstart with FD.o menu and mimetype system.
  (Yaakov Selkowitz)
* Remove ascii utility; replaced by separate package derived
  from ESR's implementation http://catb.org/~esr/ascii/
* Remove realpath utility; replaced by new implementation
  provided by coreutils (8.15 and above).

TODO (call for patches):
================================
* Update lpr.cc, mkshortcut.c, readshortcut.c to use cygwin-1.7
  cygwin_conv_path instead of deprecated cygwin_conv_to_win32_path.

* Update (some?) utilities to handle unicode filenames, similar to
  IWAMURO Motonori's work on cygstart. Which utilities need this?
  mkshortcut and lpr, probably. Any others?

--
Charles Wilson
volunteer cygutils maintainer for cygwin

====================================================================

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link

TTY and sshpass

Hello,

I've been using sshpass (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/) for a 
while and it stopped working after I updated cygwin to the last version 
1.7.10-1 (was wokring with 1.7.9). I think it stops working because 
CYGWIN=TTY has changed or has been removed.

Indeed, sshpass try to access TTY to communicate with the child ssh 
process, so I would think that the recent changes to TTY could be the 
problem.

sshpass use "pselect" to read from the TTY, but the function returns an 
error the errno is set to :
ERROR: Interrupted system call

Does someone have an idea on the reason why ?

Thanks
Sylvain

1.7.10 cygrunsrv.exe fails with "fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable"

Pardon me if this is old news, but searching the mailing lists has not yielded a solution that solves the
problems I'm having on this computer.

system is Windows XP Professional (patched up to date), Cygwin version is:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 CADMAN 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin

I can register a service such as rsyncd using cygrunsrv (cygrunsrv -R <options>), but when I try to start it,
the 'error 1062' appears on the command line and the following error appears in the Application log:

rsyncd: PID 3216: starting service `rsyncd' failed: fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable.

ALSO: run.exe fails silently. No output (called application does not run), no error, nothing in the logs.

I'm not sure when this started, and I don't know how to find a pre-compiled older version of cygwin. (I only
see what I'm guessing are source code tarballs of setup.exe in the archives).

I'm running Cygwin on many dozens of other computers, and this is the only one that has this problem. 

Reinstallation (of 1.7.9 and 1.7.10) has not fixed the problem; even after completely deleting all of C:\cygwin.

Changing the stack size using regtool (regtool.exe -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb
2048) has not fixed the problem.

I looked at the BLODA (http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda) and tried completely
uninstalling Spybot S&D, and this did not fix the problem.

What is the next thing I should try to troubleshoot this?

--

-- 

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: pwget -- Downloader utility which resembles wget

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
===================

Homepage: http://freecode.com/projects/perlwebget
License : GPL-2+

Similar to wget(1) but it can use categorized configuration files,
analyze Web pages, and search for download links as instructed.
Instead of absolute links, it contains heuristics to track newer
versions of files.

CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE
==========================

See homepage and ChangeLog link.

INSTALL OR UPGRADE NOTES
========================

Standard install.

CYGWIN INSTALLATION INFORMATION
===============================

To install this package, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
<http://cygwin.com/> web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. You'll find
the package listed in the "All" category. After installation, read the
documentation at directories:

help2man 1.40.4-1 and cygintl-8.dll

Hi!

I happened to look in the help2man package and found that it
contained a file cygintl-8.dll.  Here are the first few files
in the help2man package:

Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011      0 usr/
Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011      0 usr/bin/
Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011  17540 usr/bin/help2man
Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011      0 usr/lib/
Thu Dec 29 07:25:33 2011      0 usr/lib/help2man/
Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011      0 usr/lib/help2man/bindtextdomain.so -> cygintl-8.dll
Thu Dec 29 07:25:33 2011   7694 usr/lib/help2man/cygintl-8.dll
...

In the light of [1], I found that suspect, and did a package search
for cygintl-8.dll and found these matches:

help2man/help2man-1.40.4-1
libintl8/libintl8-0.15-1
libintl8/libintl8-0.17-1
libintl8/libintl8-0.17-10
libintl8/libintl8-0.17-11
libintl8/libintl8-0.17-2
libintl8/libintl8-0.18.1.1-1
libintl8/libintl8-0.18.1.1-2

It's not good to have two different paths to the same dll, right?

Cheers,

problem with /dev/dsp

I used to be able to copy WAV files to /dev/dsp, they would play,
and I would know what was happening in my scripts.  Now I get a
silent error message.

$ /bin/cp bin/alert.wav /dev/dsp
cp: writing `/dev/dsp': No space left on device
cp: failed to extend `/dev/dsp': No space left on device

$ cat bin/alert.wav > /dev/dsp
cat: write error: No space left on device

$ cat bin/alert.wav >> /dev/dsp
cat: write error: No space left on device

echo '^G' works fine.

Everything up to date.  Seems correlated with the new cygwin1.dll.

Thanks,

- Barry

how to set locale with C++

Attached a small example taken from Bruce Eckel Thinking in C++

On cygwin both this call

   cout.imbue(locale("en_US.UTF-8"));

   cout.imbue(locale("fr_FR.UTF-8"));

raise exception

"terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
   what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted (core dumped)"

I could understand eventually the second one, but "English (US)" is the 
current windows locale so I expected that at least "en_US.UTF-8" is 
accepted.

What I am missing ?

Regards
Marco

//: C04:Locale.cpp {-g++}{-bor}{-edg} {RunByHand}
// Illustrates effects of locales.
#include <iostream>
#include <locale>
using namespace std;

gitk broken after update

After one of the recent updates (X.Org?), gitk doesn't work anymore:

  $ gitk
  Error in startup script: unknown color name "SystemButtonFace"
      while executing
  "winfo rgb . $c"
      (procedure "setui" line 3)
      invoked from within
  "setui $uicolor"
      (file "D:\cygwin\bin\gitk" line 11504)

Any ideas?

Have a nice day,
Berny

Cygwin.dll version in bug reports

"Christopher Faylor" wrote in message
news:<20120209005328.GB23954 <at> ednor.casa.cgf.cx>...
> 
> Same thing in 1.7.9.
> 
> Please lets not just put 1.7.10 in front of every bug report.

What is the proper procedure?

Today I sent a couple of bug reports.  I based my "Subject" on the "Good
examples" given at:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Since all the good examples had a cygwin1.dll version at the front, I
thought that was expected.  So I put 1.7.10 at the front, because that
was the cygwin1.dll version I was using.

Tcl/tk dll's

Hi Yaakov,
curiosity, any reason why the tcl/tk  dll's are
not using the cyg prefix ?

/usr/bin/libtcl8.5.dll
/usr/bin/libtk8.5.dll

Regards
Marco