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From: Mark Bohlman <mbohlman AT tcicredit DOT com>
Subject: Re: fhandler_base::dup failed error after upgrade to 1.5.11-1
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:10:40 -0400
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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
> 

See also <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg01235.html> if you have 
no way to get rid of any create "con" file.
-- Mark


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