Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/11/07/15:41:49
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:23:10PM -0800, Georges, Chris wrote:
>> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:26 AM
>> To: Georges, Chris; 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'
>> Subject: Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
>>
>>
>> At 01:30 AM 11/7/2000, Georges, Chris wrote:
>>
>>>I just upgraded my cygwin installation from 1.0 to the latest cygwin
>>>DLLs (cygwin-1.1.5-4) and now almost every utililty (ls,cat,etc) prints
>>>out "couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" when it starts. tcsh
>>>prints the error and exits. I backed out to cygwin-1.1.4 and got the
>>>same problem. I am running all of these apps remotely in a telnet
>>>window connected a windows 2000 telnet server (the default one that
>>>comes with win2k) on a remote machine, this worked fine until I
>>>upgraded cygwin. The apps appear to run OK when run in a normal window
>>>on the local machine.
>>
>>A cygcheck -s -r -v may be helpful. My guess is you have a mixture of
>>1.0 and 1.1.x stuff that's causing you troubles, but that's purely a
>>guess. The results of cygcheck should help you determine this.
>
>I think the problem is in cygwin1.dll, which is printing out that
>message in stdio_init() in source file "winsup\cygwin\dtable.cc". It's
>calling DuplicateHandle() which apparently fails, and somehow the error
>causes everything to exit. I couldnt find a corresponding function in
>the source for cygwin 1.0. I backed out to the cygwin 1.0 version of
>cygwin1.dll and the message went away.
The *fact* that an error is being printed is not indicative of an error
in cygwin1.dll. The same code is in 1.0 and 1.1.x. Larry's suggestion
of running 'cygcheck -s -r -v' was the best way to debug your problem.
cgf
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