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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:39:36 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To: Song Ken Vern-E11804 <kensong AT motorola DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Running native windows mysql in cygwin shell
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Song Ken Vern-E11804 schrieb:
> I have installed mysql native windows version on Windows.
> I have also compiled and installed mysql for cygwin . (I did this because I wanted install the mysql perl modules)

you'll only need cygwin libmysqlclient therefore, not the database and 
not the cygwin clients.

> But, running the native version of mysqldump.exe in a cygwin shell seems to hang. 
> If I run the version compiled from sources, it seems to work. 
> The database server is the native windows version. 
> http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-4.1.3b-beta-win.zip
> 
> Is this expected behaviour? 

not expected, but a known problem with the native client versions in the 
cygwin shell since years.
also try to add the host=127.0.0.1 line to the [client] entry at 
c:\my.cnf so that it will not use the socket method.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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