Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:02:57 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: cygwin References: <90F3E2EF5221D411AAF5006008A8451601AAE980@server.pixsci.com> In-Reply-To: <90F3E2EF5221D411AAF5006008A8451601AAE980@server.pixsci.com> Subject: Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00121913025705.28008@cygbert> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id HAA19440 On Tuesday 19 December 2000 01:55, Don Bowman wrote: > installer. When invoked via telnet, bash quits with the > same "couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" message. > My other windows2000 box with the same setup but cygwin1.dll > of ts=1998/12/3 23:39 works well with the telnet server. Fine. There's has been made a change in Cygwin which tries the following on init: - Get the stdin, stdout and stderr handles from the system. - If stdout handle == stderr handle then try to separate them into two _different_ handles. This is important to allow separate redirection of stdout and stderr. - If this failes (The Win32 system call `DuplicateHandle') the above system error output is forced. The problem is that the W2K telnet server doesn't allow duplicating the handle for some strange reason which only Microsoft knows of. Try using telnet from the inetutils package. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple