I hate to point to the obvious, but it does not seem that anyone has pointed to this thread as a possible explanation:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00521.html It looks fairly relevant to me. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/