Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <38A2E447.BFDD5FAB@vinschen.de> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:16:07 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: problem with tcsh References: <200002100744.IAA62885@andromeda.risc.uni-linz.ac.at> <38A273D0.8D80F5CB@vinschen.de> <20000210100007.A7532@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:16:16AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> This is what strace tells me about tcsh: > >> [...] > >> 1947 436996 [main] TCSH 1000 posify: env var converted to PATH=/usr/LOCAL/BIN:/bin:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND:/DOS:/TEXMF/MIKTEX/BIN:/PROGRAMME/PACKER:/SYSTEMS/PERL5/BIN:/MSSDK/BIN:/TEXMF/EMTEX/BIN > >> 1830 449069 [main] TCSH 1000 _write: -1 = write (0, 0x448890, 61) > >> 3089 452158 [main] TCSH 1000 do_exit: do_exit (1) > >> [...] > > > >The `write' call can't write to stdout and returns -1. > > Actually, it's trying to write to *stdin*. That's why it is failing. > I have no idea why, though. Oops, you're right, I missed it. AFAIK this behaviour is ok for an interactive tool when it has to be sure to write a text to the same place where a user input will come from. I will take a look into the sources today, just to be sure. But the fact is, it works on NT and W2K. Q: Where is the difference to 9X? Corinna -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com