Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-WM-Posted-At: avacado.atomice.net; Wed, 22 May 02 17:50:14 +0100 Message-ID: <000701c201b0$bec63d90$0100a8c0@advent02> From: "Chris January" To: References: <001101c201a8$2148fc40$df250b93@ALASTIMSON> Subject: Re: fhandler.cc rev=1.116 source code level bug in fhandler_base::dup (fhandler_base *child) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:50:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > I might be wrong but it looks like: > > In the function below > ------------------------ > if (get_nohandle ()) > nh = NULL; // NULL == 0 and is a valid (but possibly closed) handle > > ------------------------ > MUST BE > ------------------------ > if (get_nohandle ()) > nh = (HANDLE)-1; // or better yet INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE > I just wish I could figure out what causes the 'dup(/dev) failed' errors I see about 30% of the time I click cygwin.bat. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/