Re: passwd & group file problems ?

Roy Wiseman wrote: I agree that Symantec are a bit of satanic corporation, So you think this is not an insult to the corporation?:) PS. If ever you reply, please direct all the mails to the cygwin-talk mailing list where discussions of this type are on-topic. -- Carlo Florendo Astr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20050608-2

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a quick update from the release I made a few hours ago which corrects some section handling problems that I introduced in my patch. This version should now correctly build the Cygwin DLL. For a brief description of this packa

Re: Application Error with 20050609 snapshot

On 6/9/2005 6:54 PM, Larry Hall wrote: At 02:43 PM 6/9/2005, you wrote I get an Application Error popup when trying to start bash (or sh) with the 20050609 snapshot or a DLL built myself from CVS today. The error is: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc005). Click on OK to

Use setup.exe or CVS - was - where can i download the source code of cygwin

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Re: Application Error with 20050609 snapshot

At 02:43 PM 6/9/2005, you wrote >I get an Application Error popup when trying to start bash (or sh) with the >20050609 snapshot or a DLL built myself from CVS today. The error is: > >The application failed to initialize properly (0xc005). Click on OK to >terminate the appli

Re: Multi Threaded programs deadlock doing simple I/O operations

On Thursday, June 09, 2005 at 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0700, Mark Pizzolato wrote: >There is a serious problem for multi threaded programs doing simple I/O >operations in cygwin (open, dup, fdopen, fclose, and close). > >The attached 81 line test prog

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

On 6/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling > >>to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect > >>this

Re: ./config

alex hardy wrote: > Every time I use the ./config comand it does not work. Huh? This is way too vague to answer. 1. "./config" is not a standard command, do you mean "./configure"? 2. What software (exact version) are you trying to configure/build? 3. What is the exact command that you are typi

Re: Login & Something diff since cygwin 1.5.15-1 release - could it be security changes that were made

At 02:07 PM 6/9/2005, you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: >> Perhaps you added one or more of these one time when you wanted to try >> this with your account and didn't remove them all later. > >sshd kept jumping to mind and after a google search of cygwin.com it seems to >hold that at one time this wa

Re: ruby dumps core

Steve Kelem wrote: > C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap > C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.so to same address as > parent(0x37) != 0x276 > C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap > C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.so to same address as > parent(0x37

./config

Hello Every time I use the ./config comand it does not work. Also re openssl where can I find the sign.sh file alex -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

ruby dumps core

I tried running "ri File", and got the following messages: C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.so to same address as parent(0x37) != 0x276 C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.so

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Roy Wiseman wrote: > I agree that Symantec are a bit of satanic corporation, Wow, I've never heard it put so correctly and succinctly. Perhaps the new Pope can help us all out and exorcise Symantec, McAffe, and Google Desktop Search. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:26:59PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:31:23PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> >>Oh, I'm sorry. I think I see. There are some gcc-mingw-* packages >> >>after 20040822-1 that fix the problem

Re: Multi Threaded programs deadlock doing simple I/O operations

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0700, Mark Pizzolato wrote: >There is a serious problem for multi threaded programs doing simple I/O >operations in cygwin (open, dup, fdopen, fclose, and close). > >The attached 81 line test program clearly demonstrates the issue (by >hanging and no longer con

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:31:23PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>Oh, I'm sorry. I think I see. There are some gcc-mingw-* packages > >>after 20040822-1 that fix the problem? > > > >Yes. And I suggest that you get a gold star because you found

Re: error initdb-failed

Hello Carlo, Yes, we look at the documentation but it did not give certain. The problems to install postgresql in win98 had been many, then in the project we decide here to develop using winXP. I did not obtain to decide the problem with the Cygwin and win98, we cannot wait more. I am th

Re: automatic generation of resolv.conf

Ross Boulet wrote: > I recently downloaded and compiled dig from the bind > website. When I tried to run it, it wouldn't work unless I > specified the DNS server on the command line. Looking at > the man page on a Linux box, I saw a reference to > resolv.conf (which is obviously not present by d

Re: error initdb-failed

Hello Carlo, Yes, we look at the documentation but it did not give certain. The problems to install postgresql in win98 had been many, then in the project we decide here to develop using winXP. I did not obtain to decide the problem with the Cygwin and win98, we cannot wait more. I am th

automatic generation of resolv.conf

I recently downloaded and compiled dig from the bind website. When I tried to run it, it wouldn't work unless I specified the DNS server on the command line. Looking at the man page on a Linux box, I saw a reference to resolv.conf (which is obviously not present by default in Windoze. Creating a

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:31:23PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Oh, I'm sorry. I think I see. There are some gcc-mingw-* packages >>after 20040822-1 that fix the problem? > >Yes. And I suggest that you get a gold star because you found the >first mistake I made when building and uploading thi

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:24:57PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help >> Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify >> that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do >> that wit

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

David Rothenberger wrote: On 6/9/2005 12:24 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 6/9/2005 12:17 PM, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: % cygcheck -cv | grep gcc Empty package gcc gcc 3.4.4-1 OK gcc-core3.4.4-1 OK gcc-

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

Christopher Faylor wrote: > But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help > Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify > that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do > that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? [...] > I truly hate all of t

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

thanks Igor, and also Dave, I totally appreciate both of your time on this (can't say I liked the insult much Dave, but my mistake was accidental you know. Maybe it's a Scottish thing that we treat people with respect until they disrespect us, I guess we don't think we should have to put up with i

Re: PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT different for cygwin v.s. linux.

On Jun 9, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:29:46PM -0700, Peter Rehley wrote: On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Thomas E. Zerucha wrote: I have a problem similar to that of: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg01400.html I have an old system that I'm

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > >>Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and > >>sign the copyright assignment, sigh), > > > >Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It tu

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Yuk, top posting. Reformatted. Please consider pressing Ctrl-End in the Message text area... On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Roy Wiseman wrote: > --- Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...after changing the first line of the reply quote. As I mentioned, . I k

bash page fault on Win98SE when running non-Cygwin programs

When running some non-Cygwin programs from bash (seems to be mostly a problem with 16-bit programs, but also some 32-bit programs), bash gets an invalid page fault in KERNEL32.DLL and pops up a fault dialog. Also, quitting the fault dialog doesn't work - I just get another page fault dialog each

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Thanks for the insults D A V E . K O R N You say you are offended, and that I am not in control of my own actions (obviously highly offensive, patronising and insulting statements). I am in control of my own actions. You of course have answers that I would like, and yet you dangle them at me i

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

David Rothenberger wrote: On 6/9/2005 12:17 PM, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: % cygcheck -cv | grep gcc Empty package gcc gcc 3.4.4-1 OK gcc-core3.4.4-1 OK gcc-g++ 3.4.4-1 OK Empty

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Yep, that's got to be the source of the problem. % ls /lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32 3.4.1 Gcc normally lives under "/lib/gcc-lib/", rather than "/lib/gcc/..."; someone's been playing around with all the various individual --*-prefix=DIR and

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

On 6/9/2005 12:24 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 6/9/2005 12:17 PM, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: % cygcheck -cv | grep gcc Empty package gcc gcc 3.4.4-1 OK gcc-core3.4.4-1 OK gcc-g++ 3.4.4-1

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

On 6/9/2005 12:17 PM, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: % cygcheck -cv | grep gcc Empty package gcc gcc 3.4.4-1 OK gcc-core3.4.4-1 OK gcc-g++ 3.4.4-1 OK Empty package gcc-mingw gcc-mingw

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

David Rothenberger wrote: I ran Cygwin Setup today and noticed that gcc 3.4.4-1 had moved out of test, so I upgraded it. I then tried to build the cygwin DLL and utilites from CVS and ran into a problem compiling cygcheck. g++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or dire

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

Dave Korn wrote: Yep, that's got to be the source of the problem. % ls /lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32 3.4.1 Gcc normally lives under "/lib/gcc-lib/", rather than "/lib/gcc/..."; someone's been playing around with all the various individual --*-prefix=DIR and --*dir= options at configure

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

David Rothenberger wrote: On 6/9/2005 11:15 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 09 June 2005 19:08 On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:05:40AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: I ran Cygwin Setup today and noticed that gcc 3.4.4-1 had moved out of test, s

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Original Message >From: Roy Wiseman >Sent: 09 June 2005 19:40 > i'm sorry, it was completely unintentional. really did > not mean to do that, I pressed reply-all by mistake i > think, i did go to the acronym page and read it and > noted it, so I did not mean to do that. And then you go

RE: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

Original Message >From: David Rothenberger >Sent: 09 June 2005 19:50 > % gcc -print-search-dirs > install: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/ > programs: > =/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/bin/../lib/gcc/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc -cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/:/usr/l

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

On 6/9/2005 11:15 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 09 June 2005 19:08 On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:05:40AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: I ran Cygwin Setup today and noticed that gcc 3.4.4-1 had moved out of test, so I upgraded it. I then tried

click on the "Src" box when running setup.exe (was Re: where can i download the source code of cygwin)

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where can i download the source code of cygwin

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Application Error with 20050609 snapshot

I get an Application Error popup when trying to start bash (or sh) with the 20050609 snapshot or a DLL built myself from CVS today. The error is: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc005). Click on OK to terminate the application. I've been getting this message the las

where can i download the source code of cygwin

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RE: passwd & group file problems ?

i'm sorry, it was completely unintentional. really did not mean to do that, I pressed reply-all by mistake i think, i did go to the acronym page and read it and noted it, so I did not mean to do that. --- Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Original Message > >From: Roy Wiseman > >S

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:28:28PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >>Of course we would be glad to have more people working on the DLL (and >>sign the copyright assignment, sigh), > >Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much >easier to release something into the

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

> Of course we would be glad to have more people working on > the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh), Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my company), thus my approach. I had actually made so

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Original Message >From: Roy Wiseman >Sent: 09 June 2005 19:16 [SNIP everything.] Why did you ignore the perfectly polite request I made to you to stop spamming my email address across the web archive? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Uns

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

I agree that Symantec are a bit of satanic corporation, but ... well, Ghost2003 is actually very impressive most of the time (apart from breaking cygwin which is a big problem of course). ok, I've fixed symantec by taking out the 2 " in the path and I fixed the cygwin1.dll (it was a copy of testdi

RE: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

Original Message >From: Christopher Faylor >Sent: 09 June 2005 19:08 > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:05:40AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >> I ran Cygwin Setup today and noticed that gcc 3.4.4-1 had moved out of >> test, so I upgraded it. I then tried to build the cygwin DLL and >> utilit

Re: cygwin and tape backup

resent in plain text On 6/9/05, Manny Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a win2k client with a SCSI card connected to a Quantum l200 tape > loader - dlt7000 tape drive with a 8 slot robot. > > I made a backup of data on a dlt7000 connected to a Unix machine with the > tar co

Re: Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:05:40AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >I ran Cygwin Setup today and noticed that gcc 3.4.4-1 had moved out of >test, so I upgraded it. I then tried to build the cygwin DLL and >utilites from CVS and ran into a problem compiling cygcheck. > >g++: installation problem,

Re: Login & Something diff since cygwin 1.5.15-1 release - could it be security changes that were made

Larry Hall wrote: > Perhaps you added one or more of these one time when you wanted to try > this with your account and didn't remove them all later. sshd kept jumping to mind and after a google search of cygwin.com it seems to hold that at one time this was the method (and may still be - just n

Problem with gcc 3.4.4-1 and -mno-cygwin switch

I ran Cygwin Setup today and noticed that gcc 3.4.4-1 had moved out of test, so I upgraded it. I then tried to build the cygwin DLL and utilites from CVS and ran into a problem compiling cygcheck. g++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory I get the same error

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Original Message >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 09 June 2005 18:09 > likely to bite you at some point soon. Secondly, some application > (presumably Norton Ghost) has inserted a quoted string into your PATH, > which confuses Cygwin. Remove the quotes from the PATH. At this point, I'

Re: passwd & group file problems ?

Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Roy Wiseman wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Roy Wiseman wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I work in a corporate environment, with very li

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20050608-1

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This version is a refresh from CVS and contains a fix for a long-standing problem with executable files which caused debugging information to be loaded into memory rather than just referenced from disk as intended. This problem indir

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Original Message >From: Roy Wiseman >Sent: 09 June 2005 16:58 > ok, thanks Dave, do you know which I should remove to > fix that and any settings that I should change ? > > (I don't know how this could have happened as well, as > I did a fresh installation in a single step and > captured

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

ok, thanks Dave, do you know which I should remove to fix that and any settings that I should change ? (I don't know how this could have happened as well, as I did a fresh installation in a single step and captured it in Wise Package Studio to see every file and registry change made to the system

Re: PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT different for cygwin v.s. linux.

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:16:42AM -0400, Thomas E. Zerucha wrote: >>From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>I can't seem to build the cygwin1.dll ... > >>Sounds OK to me. Try stripping it. > >Been there, tried that.. > >>>[built from source] and it complained about something with the addres

Re: PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT different for cygwin v.s. linux.

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:29:46PM -0700, Peter Rehley wrote: >On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Thomas E. Zerucha wrote: > >>I have a problem similar to that of: >> >>http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg01400.html >> >>I have an old system that I'm trying to port that uses pthreads, but >>doesn't

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

Original Message >From: Roy Wiseman >Sent: 09 June 2005 16:16 > I've attached my cygcheck.out file here. You have multiple incompatible copies of cygwin1.dll in the $PATH; that's an absolute no-no. 1158k 2005/04/01 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0

Re: passwd & group file problems ?

Hi, I guess the main question that I'm asking from the below is : on a clean system without cygwin where setup.exe is run, after the files have been installed to c:\cygwin (or wherever), how do I run the process that binds/registers these files into a working cygwin system ? (i.e. the process t

RE: PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT different for cygwin v.s. linux.

>From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>I can't seem to build the cygwin1.dll ... >Sounds OK to me. Try stripping it. Been there, tried that.. >>[built from source] and it complained about something with the address). > Perhaps it's best if you just tell us what the actual error messa

Re: passwd & group file problems ?

Hi Igor, those mount commands don't seem to do much for this situation. same problems. you mention the hard and symbolic links, are created during the postinstall phase. this is very interesting, are there no commands to make that process rerun outside of the postinstall phase ? I've attached my c

Re: passwd & group file problems ?

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Roy Wiseman wrote: > Hello, > > I work in a corporate environment, with very limited > internet access, and I want to distribute cygwin to > some sysadmins who can make good use of these tools. I > cannot run the cygwin setup across the internet, and I > do not want to download

Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

* Systemtechnik (2005-06-09 07:37 +0100) > i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of > my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out > that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a > folder called %USERPROFILE% is created > in the base directory of th

Re: passwd & group file problems ?

* Roy Wiseman (2005-06-09 13:34 +0100) > Hello, > > I work in a corporate environment, with very limited > internet access, and I want to distribute cygwin to > some sysadmins who can make good use of these tools. I > cannot run the cygwin setup across the internet, and I > do not want to download

Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Systemtechnik wrote: > Hello, > > i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of > my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out that everytime i start installer > programs from within a cygwin shell, a folder called %USERPROFILE% is > created in the base directo

passwd & group file problems ?

Hello, I work in a corporate environment, with very limited internet access, and I want to distribute cygwin to some sysadmins who can make good use of these tools. I cannot run the cygwin setup across the internet, and I do not want to download all the binaries to put on the server. We want to pa

Re: Subversion perl bindings - where do they live?

Andrew McClure wrote: [query about Subversion Perl bindings] Currently, the Subversion Perl bindings do not even compile on Cygwin. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygw

Re: Error piping data through a cygwin command using rsh (write system call fails)

On Jun 8 14:44, Johnny B. Goode wrote: > We're using a windows 2000 based server running cygwin as a development > environment for porting our AIX-based software to the Windows platform. > > When we extract the compiled programs, we connect to the cygwin server > using rsh, passing a file list

Re: cygwin.bat fails with "WFMO failed waiting for cygthread 'WnetGetResourceInformation'

On Jun 8 11:01, Tim Hart wrote: > On Jun 7 19:06, Tim Hart wrote: > >> having the same home directory path. I can use a few pattern matching tools > >> to filter out the appropriate domain users and modify /etc/passwd > >> accordingly. Obviously mkpasswd needs to be updated in order to produce >

Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

On Jun 9 08:37, Systemtechnik wrote: > Hello, > > i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of > my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out > that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a > folder called %USERPROFILE% is created > in the base direct

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

On Jun 8 18:20, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > (I don't necessarily expect that there will be any interest > in my solution, but I thought that I should mention it just > in case. As I said, there are other ways to deal with this > without imposing path length limitations, and I don't even >

Re: Launching a cygwin binary from an application using CreateProcess Win32 API.

Venaktesh Goapal wrote > Hi, > > I tried what is mentioned in the subject above but > have not been successful. > > CreateProcess(...) returns the error 1305. > > From Winerror.h > > #define ERROR_UNKNOWN_REVISION 1305L > > Has someone tried this, or know the reason for the > error. > >