Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020122161516.02122a60@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:17:36 -0500 To: , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout In-Reply-To: <200201221520.AA36962418@mail.ootips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:20 PM 1/22/2002, Adee Ran wrote: >I get the above error when running bash on a telnet session on Win2K. That's a pity because the cmd shell is even more annoying than usual in this case. > >The only information I found about that is quite old: > >in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-12/msg00866.html (Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:02:57 +0100 ) Corinna Vinschen says: > > >There's has been made a change in Cygwin (...) >(...) > >The problem is that the W2K telnet server doesn't allow duplicating > >the handle for some strange reason which only Microsoft knows of. > >is there a solution by now? > >my version data (from cygcheck): > > Cygwin DLL version info: > dll major: 1003 > dll minor: 2 > dll epoch: 19 > dll bad signal mask: 19005 > dll old termios: 5 > dll malloc env: 28 > api major: 0 > api minor: 39 > shared data: 3 > dll identifier: cygwin1 > mount registry: 2 > cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions > cygwin registry name: Cygwin > program options name: Program Options > cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 > cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags > cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix > cygdrive default prefix: > build date: Sun May 20 23:28:17 EDT 2001 > shared id: cygwin1S3 First, I'd recommend updating your DLL. However, to answer your question, I think Corinna provided the best solution you're likely to get on this subject, without a change from MS. Did you try using telnet from the inetutils package? Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/