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Subject: RE: Crashes/defunct processes after upgrade to cygwin-1.5.20
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:46:58 +0100
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On 11 July 2006 14:12, Harald Anlauf wrote:

> Corinna,

  Nope, I'm not Corinna!
 
> I have now attached the output of cygcheck of my system
> that should be "current" except for cygwin1 which 1.5.19-4.
> 
> I have verified that there was and is no other cygwin1.dll,
> neither in PATH nor elsewhere.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/csh

  There is no such thing as /usr/bin/csh in the cygwin distribution.

> cat << EOF
>     Hello world!
> EOF
>
> % ./cygwin-csh-bug
> cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> cat: closing standard input: Bad file descriptor
> % echo $?
> 1

  The cygwin version of the C-shell is called 'tcsh'.  You perhaps have some kind of bogus shell script in /usr/bin that's pretending to be csh and is attempting to translate and forward the command line args to the real tcsh and is getting confused?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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