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From: "LeGardeur Michel (external)"
	 <Michel DOT LeGardeur DOT external AT kst DOT siemens DOT de>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: CYGWIN on W2K Telnet Server. Solution "to couldn't make stderr di
	stinct from stdout"
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:02:26 +0200
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Hallo,

for information

the instruction "ECHO blablabla >NUL" before starting any CYGWIN tool within
a Telnet session on the W2K Telnet Server is sufficient to get rid of this
error.

M. Le Gardeur

*	To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com> 
*	Subject: Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout 
*	From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com> 
*	Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:02:57 +0100 
*	References:
<90F3E2EF5221D411AAF5006008A8451601AAE980 AT server DOT pixsci DOT com <msg00845.html>>


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




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