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Subject:	Re: Crashes/defunct processes after upgrade to cygwin-1.5.20
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 11 July 2006 14:12, Harald Anlauf wrote:
> 
> > Corinna,
> 
>   Nope, I'm not Corinna!
>  
> > I have now attached the output of cygcheck of my system
> > that should be "current" except for cygwin1 which 1.5.19-4.
> > 
> > I have verified that there was and is no other cygwin1.dll,
> > neither in PATH nor elsewhere.
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/csh
> 
>   There is no such thing as /usr/bin/csh in the cygwin distribution.
> 
> > cat << EOF
> >     Hello world!
> > EOF
> >
> > % ./cygwin-csh-bug
> > cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> > cat: closing standard input: Bad file descriptor
> > % echo $?
> > 1
> 
>   The cygwin version of the C-shell is called 'tcsh'.  You perhaps have some kind of bogus shell script in /usr/bin that's pretending to be csh and is attempting to translate and forward the command line args to the real tcsh and is getting confused?

I know I'm going out on a limb here, but could the csh in /usr/bin be the
one created by the tcsh postinstall script?  :)

Try deleting /usr/bin/csh.exe.lnk and re-running
/etc/postinstall/tcsh.sh.done.

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