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From: "Fries" <Fries AT bdv DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Error:  couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:43:27 +0100
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I Think this e-mail is not for me. Please don´t send me such e-mails.
Thanks.
Jürgen Fries, BDV GmbH
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout


> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:23:10PM -0800, Georges, Chris wrote:
> >> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:26 AM
> >> To: Georges, Chris; 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'
> >> Subject: Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
> >>
> >>
> >> 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 think the problem is in cygwin1.dll, which is printing out that
> >message in stdio_init() in source file "winsup\cygwin\dtable.cc".  It's
> >calling DuplicateHandle() which apparently fails, and somehow the error
> >causes everything to exit.  I couldnt find a corresponding function in
> >the source for cygwin 1.0.  I backed out to the cygwin 1.0 version of
> >cygwin1.dll and the message went away.
>
> The *fact* that an error is being printed is not indicative of an error
> in cygwin1.dll.  The same code is in 1.0 and 1.1.x.  Larry's suggestion
> of running 'cygcheck -s -r -v' was the best way to debug your problem.
>
> cgf
>
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