Crashes/defunct processes after upgrade to cygwin-1.5.20

Tue Jul 11 13:46:00 GMT 2006

On 11 July 2006 14:12, Harald Anlauf wrote:
> Corinna,

 Nope, I'm not Corinna!

> I have now attached the output of cygcheck of my system
> that should be "current" except for cygwin1 which 1.5.19-4.
>> I have verified that there was and is no other cygwin1.dll,
> neither in PATH nor elsewhere.
>> #!/usr/bin/csh

 There is no such thing as /usr/bin/csh in the cygwin distribution.
> cat << EOF
> Hello world!
> EOF
>> % ./cygwin-csh-bug
> cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> cat: closing standard input: Bad file descriptor
> % echo $?
> 1

 The cygwin version of the C-shell is called 'tcsh'. You perhaps have some kind of bogus shell script in /usr/bin that's pretending to be csh and is attempting to translate and forward the command line args to the real tcsh and is getting confused?
 cheers,
 DaveK
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