Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: After Cygwin and XEmacs upgrade, read-only files aren't detected From: dmkarr AT earthlink DOT net (David M. Karr) Date: 01 Nov 2002 23:46:05 -0800 Message-ID: <868z0cqurm.fsf@earthlink.net> Lines: 266 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Military Intelligence (RC5 Windows)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Last night I upgraded my Cygwin and Cygwin/XEmacs installations to the latest. Today, I noticed that XEmacs can no longer notice that read-only files are read-only. Normally, it detects that, and sets the buffer to be read-only. I did report this to the XEmacs group, but they're not aware of any recent changes that could be related to this. Is there some recent Cygwin feature change that could be causing this? Here's my "cygcheck -s" output, if that helps: ------------------ Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Nov 01 23:44:16 2002 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\i686-pc-cygwin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin c:\Program Files\ibm\gsk5\lib c:\j2sdk1.4.0\bin c:\j2sdk1.4.0\jre\bin\client C:\cygwin\bin c:\WINNT\system32 c:\WINNT c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem c:\WebSphere\AppServer\bin C:\cygwin\home\dmkarr\bin c:\jakarta-ant-1.4.1\bin c:\jboss-2.4.1_Tomcat-3.2.3\jboss\bin c:\mysql-max-3.23.51\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin C:\cygwin\usr\local\lib\qt2\bin c:\hpmw\hpas\orbix\bin . C:\cygwin\home\dmkarr\ntlisp\jde-2.1.8\lisp C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT CYGWIN = `tty' HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\dmkarr' LD_LIBRARY_PATH = `c:\qt-x11-free-3.0.1\lib' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/home/dmkarr/work/jakartacvs/jakarta-struts' USER = `dmkarr' Use `-r' to scan registry a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 43966Mb 48% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd N/A N/A . / user binmode,cygdrive C:/cygwin / system binmode C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode . /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe 58k 2002/05/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll 54k 2002/01/27 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll 625k 2002/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll 45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll 35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll 19k 2002/02/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll 20k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll 929k 2002/06/24 C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll 22k 2001/12/13 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll 28k 2002/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll 21k 2001/06/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll 81k 2001/10/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll 35k 2001/10/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll 45k 2002/02/08 C:\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll 119k 2002/02/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll 59k 2002/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygkpathsea-3-3-7.dll 26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll 20k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll 156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll 175k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll 226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll 202k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll 15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll 12k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll 40k 2001/11/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll 39k 2001/11/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll 175k 2002/07/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng10.dll 179k 2002/07/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng12.dll 170k 2002/01/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll 22k 2002/06/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll 127k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll 66k 2001/11/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygregex.dll 159k 2002/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll 390k 2001/10/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll 5k 2001/10/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll 10k 2001/10/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll 253k 2002/02/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll 623k 2001/10/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll 41k 2002/01/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll 46k 2002/01/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll 50k 2002/03/12 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll 905k 2002/10/24 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.14 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 62 Shared data: 3 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Thu Oct 24 10:48:11 EDT 2002 Shared id: cygwin1S3 653k 1998/10/30 c:\mysql-max-3.23.51\bin\cygwinb19.dll Cygwin Package Information Package Version _update-info-dir 00078-1 ash 20020731-1 autoconf 2.53b-1 autoconf-devel 2.53a-1 autoconf-stable 2.13-4 automake 1.6.2-1 automake-devel 1.6.2-1 automake-stable 1.4p5-5 base-files 1.0-1 base-passwd 1.0-1 bash 2.05b-5 binutils 20020706-2 bison 1.75-1 byacc 1.9-1 bzip2 1.0.2-2 clear 1.0-1 cpio 2.4.2 cron 3.0.1-7 crypt 1.0-1 ctags 5.2-1 cvs 1.11.0-1 cygrunsrv 0.95-1 cygutils 1.1.2-1 cygwin 1.3.14-1 cygwin-doc 1.2-1 dejagnu 20010117-1 diff 1.0-1 diffutils 2.8.1-1 ed 0.2-1 expect 20010117-1 file 3.37-1 fileutils 4.1-1 findutils 4.1.7-4 flex 2.5.4-2 fortune 1.8-2 gawk 3.1.1-5 gcc 3.2-1 gcc-mingw 3.2-20020817-1 gdb 20010428-3 gdbm 1.8.0-4 gettext 0.11.5-1 ghostscript 7.05-2 ghostscript-base 7.05-2 gperf 0.0 grep 2.5-1 groff 1.17.2-1 gzip 1.3.3-4 inetutils 1.3.2-19 irc 20010101-1 jbigkit 1.2-6 jpeg 6b-7 less 374-1 libbz2_0 1.0.2-1 libbz2_1 1.0.2-2 libiconv2 1.8-2 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libintl2 0.11.5-1 libkpathsea3 20020911-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libpng 1.2.4-2 libpng10 1.0.14-2 libpng12 1.2.4-2 libpng2 1.0.12-1 libpopt0 1.6.4-4 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.3-2 login 1.4-4 lynx 2.8.4-1 m4 0.0 make 3.79.1-7 man 1.5g-2 mingw 20010917-1 mingw-runtime 2.2-1 mktemp 1.4-1 more 2.11o-1 mt 2.0.1-1 mutt 1.4-1 ncftp 3.1.4-1 ncurses 5.2-8 newlib-man 20020801 opengl 1.1.0-6 openssh 3.4p1-5 openssl 0.9.6g-1 patch 2.5-3 pcre 3.7-1 perl 5.6.1-2 popt 1.6.4-4 postgresql 7.2.3-1 python 2.2.1-1 readline 4.3-2 regex 4.4-2 rsync 2.5.5-1 rxvt 2.7.2-14 sed 3.02-1 sh-utils 2.0-2 shellutils 0.0 squid 2.4.STABLE7-1 ssmtp 2.38.7-3 tar 1.13.25-1 tcltk 20001125-1 tcsh 6.11.00-4 termcap 20020930-1 terminfo 5.2-3 tetex-beta 20020911-1 tetex-bin 20020911-1 texinfo 4.2-4 textutils 2.0.21-1 tiff 3.5.7-1 time 1.7-1 unzip 5.50-1 vim 6.1-2 w32api 2.0-1 wget 1.8.2-1 which 1.5-1 xpm 4.0.0-2 xpm-nox 4.2.0-1 zip 2.3-2 zlib 1.1.4-1 Use -h to see help about each section -- =================================================================== David M. 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