From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: Problem with the newest make
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:17:23 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De (Juan Manuel Guerrero)
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> I have problems with the latest make that I downloaded from
> http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/.

I've discovered that popen is broken, since it calls freopen
which has a bug expecting handles to be returned in same order.
New _creat didn't do that, it breaks freopen.  This causes
internal "shell" commands to fail - which is what you are seeing
(shell pwd) probably gave an error about bad command name or 
printed pwd to the screen.

I have patches, but the IS wizards at my company have about 100
code red c servers stoping the network from being useful (and have 
blocked all external access - this isn't the new worm, just an
old one...)

> The operating system used: MS Windows 4.0 Wks + SP 6 + LFN driver
> I wonder if anyone can reproduce this or suggest how to work over this ..?

I will update CVS and post a new make when I get access back.  This
combo would be hurt with the current bug.