On 2/8/2012 12:25 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > It used to be that when I ran ipconfig from bash, it would print > output on stdout as usual. But for some time now, when I run > ipconfig it opens a new console window, which then immediately > closes again, making it impossible for me to read the output. At the > same time, back in bash I see > > $ ipconfig 15 [main] bash 3060! _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: something > failed for pid 0: res 3060, hProcess 0x68C, wr_proc_pipe 0x738 vs. > 0x738, Win32 error 5 > > My terminal is PuTTYcyg if that matters, although I get the same > result in mintty. uname -r confirms that I'm really running 1.7.10 > this time.
It works fine under mintty, and rxvt on Windows XP. It doesn't open a new console. Perhaps you have a different ipconfig than the one that comes with Windows... I don't know if Vista and 7 have a different one that doesn't work in a terminal. -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple