Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
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: <41F14821.6000008@buddydog.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:21:21 -0500
From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold AT buddydog DOT org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050119 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running
References: <41F11B29 DOT 6030307 AT buddydog DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0501211216010 DOT 18105 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0501211216010.18105@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> 
>>1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine.
>>
>>2] Start rxvt.  Try "DoD" again. It gets about halfway through its
>>startup process, then hangs.
>>
>>3] Quit rxvt and try again. "DoD" works fine.
>>
>>I tried the same procedure with the regular Cygwin bash shell, and
>>it behaves the same way.
> 
> Do you mean that the regular Cygwin bash shell makes DoD hang too?  As in,
> start a Command Prompt, run cygwin.bat from it, and DoD still hangs?

More or less. I have a shortcut with the following:

D:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE /c D:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

And that makes DoD hang just like rxvt does.

>>Any ideas on what it could be?
> 
> A WAG, and I may be really off on this: Cygwin uses TCP/IP sockets (which
> essentially require a TCP/IP port) to emulate Unix domain sockets.  If
> rxvt reserves a Unix domain socket (even if it's not using X), and DoD
> tries to access the same port, because it's somehow predefined and it
> expects it to be free, there could be a conflict.  I can't think of
> anything else in Cygwin that would interfere with a (presumably)
> non-Cygwin application.

Well, unless the regular bash shell does it too, that probably isn't
correct. Like I said, it is very weird and it took me some time to
figure it out.

-- 
Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold AT buddydog DOT org)
Amazing Developments       http://www.buddydog.org

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -
  William H. Mauldin


--
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/