On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:26:00AM -0600, Polley Christopher W wrote: >I think I've found the cause of this. > >I'll summarize the problem, since this is an old thread: >when a Windows GUI IDE calls gcc or make, the process reports >"fhandler_base::dup: dup(unknown disk file) failed, handle 0, Win32 error 6" >and crashes. > >The problem seems to occur when the [non-cygwin] application calls the >windows CreateProcess API function with one or more of the >STARTUPINFO.hStdInput, .hStdOutput, or .hStdError handles set to NULL; and >STARTF_USESTDHANDLES is set in StartupInfo.dwFlags.
This should be fixed in current snapshots. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
