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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:19:04 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Error:  couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20001107105212.02076cd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:26:02PM -0500

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:26:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) wrote:
>At 01:30 AM 11/7/2000, Georges, Chris wrote:
>
>>I just upgraded my cygwin installation from 1.0 to the latest cygwin DLLs
>>(cygwin-1.1.5-4) and now almost every utililty (ls,cat,etc) prints out
>>"couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" when it starts.  tcsh prints the
>>error and exits.  I backed out to cygwin-1.1.4 and got the same problem.  I
>>am running all of these apps remotely in a telnet window connected a windows
>>2000 telnet server (the default one that comes with win2k) on a remote
>>machine, this worked fine until I upgraded cygwin.  The apps appear to run
>>OK when run in a normal window on the local machine.
>
>A cygcheck -s -r -v may be helpful.  My guess is you have a mixture of 1.0
>and 1.1.x stuff that's causing you troubles, but that's purely a guess.
>The results of cygcheck should help you determine this.

I don't know why 1.0 stuff and 1.1.x stuff would cause problems unless there
are two cygwin DLLs on the system.  If you can't run 1.0 binaries under 1.1.x
then that's a very serious bug.

cgf

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