X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:22:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: error rxvt/run - couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout Message-ID: <20091013082207.GC32532@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Oct 13 01:39, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > I just got a new laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition and installed > Cygwin. I usually set up an icon to invoke the following command: > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin rxvt -sr -sl 1000 -e /bin/bash > --login -I > > It runs fine in Windows XP Professional but on Windows 7 a DOS cmd console > opens up with the message: > 6 [main] rxvt 2272 dtable::stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from > stdout > > rxvt does fire up and seems to work. However, the DOS cmd console with the > message defeats the whole purpose of using run.exe. > > I did do a mailing list search and a Google search which resulted in some > old posts about problems related to calling DuplicateHandle(). > > Here is one of the threads I found: > http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@sources.redhat.com/msg03458.html > > It is a fresh install with cygwin version 1.5.25-15. Try a Cygwin 1.7 beta test release instead: http://cygwin.com/#beta-test Cygwin 1.5.25 is not really supported on Windows 7. Only Cygwin 1.7 gets tested on it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple