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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:20:56 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: scp exits often with -1
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Jörg Schaible schrieb:
> I know, that there were massive changes handling fork() and the
> pipes. So what shall I do, if a the problem now only manifests
> regularly if scp is called by Java calling a dos batch calling a
> shell script ? Using strace the problem is going to happen much more
> unlikely. So what do you mean is it good using a debugger? I really
> tried hard to find a combination, that makes the problem more obvious
> without such a weird setup and I cried here for any help, that would
> enable me to find a better scenario or that enables anyone else to
> find the problem.

Hi Jörg :)

> So, if you can't or won't help, I prefer no answer.

Downgrading to cygwin-1.3.11 should help.

or if you like living on the edge there's a new experimental "noparent" 
branch for cygwin1.dll
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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