Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001206140123.020ffc00@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:03:45 -0500 To: Charles Krug From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Reproduced it finally Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20001206133231.A17614@pentek.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20001206122555.020e0bd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20001206094141.D17209@pentek.com> <20001204203948.9541.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> <20001204181002.C14648@pentek.com> <20001204182503.C28620@redhat.com> <20001206094141.D17209@pentek.com> <20001206121754.E17209@pentek.com> <4.3.1.2.20001206122555.020e0bd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:32 PM 12/6/2000, Charles Krug wrote: >On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > And I assume you know advapi32.dll is in your path as sh.exe sees it, right? > >Yes, I just verified that, both in bash and in subshells, whether bash >or sh. > >Were this the case, wouldn't it fail as soon as sh tried to spawn its >first Cygwin application, rather than waiting until the 20th or 30th >item or even longer? Yes. >I'm curious about the fact that it sometimes completes the rest of the >script after the failure--sometimes with additional occurances of the >same failure, but on occasion without further error. And again, I've >run the thing at least once with no errors from a fresh unpacking. > >The inconsistancy what I find must curious. I'm guessing (only!) that the environment is somehow getting trashed in some nested invocation. That could explain the behavior. I can't say that's it though... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com