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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:34:25 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: fhandler_base::dup failed error after upgrade to 1.5.11-1 Message-ID: <20040909233425.GA1082@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <88f1865b04090916165e4942f2 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <88f1865b04090916165e4942f2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:16:22PM -0400, Matthew Moss wrote: >I ran into a problem after installing updates. I removed cygwin and >reinstalled and now have a fresh installation of 1.5.11-1 using >setup.exe 2.427. > >I tried the following command in bash: > >> tidy contrib.html > con.html > >Which gave the following error: > >479975353 [main] bash 4024 fhandler_base::dup: dup(/home/Matthew >Moss/con.html) failed, handle 2F, Win32 error 87 >bash: con.html: Invalid argument "con" is a reserved word on Windows. Cygwin 1.5.10 erroneously let you produce a filename named "con" but 1.5.11 no longer allows this. This error message should not occur and that should be fixed but fixing things to provide a more unix-like error message is, unfortunately, not going to solve your problem. Sorry. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/