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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:09:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: console popping up unnecessarily in xterm (cygwin 1.3.3)
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:21:20PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On 29 Sep 2001 01:57:13 -0000
>>>> danny AT ishiboo DOT com (Danny Dulai) said:
>
>> I'm trying to track down the change in cygwin 1.3.3 that caused consoles to
>> pop-up necessarily in xterm. background to this problem is in the thread
>> with a subject of "strange behavior regarding new cygwin 1.3.3 and cmd.exe"
>> 
>> 
>> I was looking briefly at the change log, and noticed these two changes:
>> 
>> 2001-08-24  Kazuhiro Fujieda  <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
>> 
>> 2001-07-25  Kazuhiro Fujieda  <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
>
>You're right. These patches of mine are related to your problem.
>The first change caused the same problem on rxvt, so I made one
>more change and managed to solve it.
>
>The same logic should also solve it on xterm. I guess another
>bug disturbs it. As you may know, Cygwin DLL 1.3.3 has a bug
>related to the inheritance of file descriptors in fork. It is
>fixed in the recent development snapshots.

AFAIK, the inheritance problem is just for socket descriptors.  I
don't think this qualifies.

cgf

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