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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 11:46:47 -0400
To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: ntsec: patch 9
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I see the same complaints from sig_send with the Aug 3 snapshot.  I use
bash as sh too.  My CYGWIN variable only has nobinmode and ntea in it along
with stuff to control the window title (I'm not at my machine now so I 
don't recall the specifics of these settings).

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At 11:32 AM 8/5/99 -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>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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