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 Message-ID: <4158C8BC.192C@zeusedit.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:13:16 +1000 From: Jussi Jumppanen Reply-To: jussij AT zeusedit DOT com Organization: Xidicone P/L MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Make Utility and DuplicateHandle(In) failed (e=6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some time ago "luca landi" wrote: > problem running make 3.77.94 inside bash > > It appears that new cygwin.dll or bash.exe is causing some > problem with console handling. In the case above, bash is > run inside a command shell window and then make is launched > as a child process of the shell. The error above appears > to be related to handling of stdin. What should happen is > that make is trying to duplicate a copy of stdin to pass to > child process as default stdin for the child. However, the > call to DuplicateHandle() (a WIN32 API) is failing because > of an e=6. Quite some time later it does appear that the problem or a problem similar to this still exists, at least with the make utility :( I had a user report the exact same error message when using the Zeus for Windows IDE to run the Gnu make utility. A quick search of google shows that other programs have come across the same error condition. After some investigation, it looks like the bug also relates to the cmd.exe interpreter. In fact if the command.com is used then the problem goes away. For any one that might be interested, more details on the bug and the resulting workaround can be found at the following forum topic: http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38 Jussi Jumppanen -- 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/