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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:32:16 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Cc: cygdev <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: ntsec: patch 9
Message-ID: <19990805113216.A973@cygnus.com>
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In-Reply-To: <37A9682E.EA185B11@vinschen.de>; from Corinna Vinschen on Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:32:14PM +0200

I am not seeing anything like this.  I've just done a couple of configure/make
cycles with no problems.

Do you have anything special in your CYGWIN environment variable?

-chris

On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:32:14PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks.  Applied.
>> 
>> Does the new snapshot still fail for you when you issue the
>> 'man tcsh' command?
>> 
>> cgf
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>unfortunately the answer is `yes'. I have found, that this behaviour
>is not reproducable beyond winsup-990726!
>
>Notice, that this happens regardless of the ntsec setting.
>
>winsup-990726 itself shows the behaviour:
>
>	tcsh> man tcsh
>
>shows man page, then pressing `q' in `less' results in:
>
>	0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1029 sig_send: error sending
>	signal(-3) to pid 1029, Win32 error 6
>
>Error 6 is `illegal handle'.
>
>Since winsup-990801 it's worse than before:
>
>	tcsh> man tcsh
>
>... results in:
>
>	/usr/local/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
>	/usr/local/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
>
>... and after pressing `q':
>
>	0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1029 sig_send: error sending
>	signal(-3) to pid 1029, Win32 error 6
>
>If I try to run it with strace, I get the following on stderr:
>
>	strace.exe: couldn't get message length from subprocess,
>	windows error 6
>
>If, for example, the complete winsup directory is up to date,
>starting `make' results in:
>
>	make[1]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
>	Making all in regexp...
>	make[2]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/regexp'
>	make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>	make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/regexp'
>-->	 0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1009 sig_send: error sending
>	signal(-3) to pid 1009, Win32 error 6
>	make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
>	make[1]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
>	Making all in mingw...
>-->	 0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1016 sig_send: error sending
>	signal(-3) to pid 1016, Win32 error 6
>	make[2]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/mingw'
>	make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>	make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/mingw'
>	Making all in utils...
>	make[2]: Entering directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/utils'
>	make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>	make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup/utils'
>-->	 0 0 [main] D:\bin\sh.exe 1020 sig_send: error sending
>	signal(-3) to pid 1020, Win32 error 6
>	make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/cdkb21/winsup'
>
>Let's talk about what happens: It's in EVERY case /bin/sh, that
>fails! In my environment, /bin/sh is bash. Regardless of the
>circumstances, it's only bash, that produces this error.
>If you look into the message, you will see, that it fails to
>work on a handle that references the calling process itself.
>
>I have attached the strace output of the above `make' example. It was
>compiled with -DDEBUGGING. I fear, it's not very useful because as
>ever when I try to strace the phenomenon, I get:
>
>	strace.exe: couldn't get message length from subprocess,
>	windows error 6
>
>Hopeful,
>Corinna


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