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Re: Recent snapshots mount table lossage? Help needed.

On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 03:10:21PM -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Tue, May 04, 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> I just had someone at Cygnus try a recent snapshot which I
>> optimistically thought would solve a problem they were seeing with
>> gdb.
>> 
>> The DLL seemed to unpack correctly but when I had the person do an
>> 'ls' nothing showed up.  The snapshot works for me, so I'm wondering
>> if there is some kind of mount table screwup somewhere?
>> 
>> Does anyone have a system which has only run B20.1 binaries that could
>> be pressed into service?  I'd like to try the newest DLL on such a
>> system along with the newest mount utility to see if the mount table is
>> correctly translated and if `ls' works correctly.
>
>I've heard of a problem where commands' output gets lost because of
>cygwin1.dll DLL conflicts but haven't seen a reproducible test case...

That is definitely a potential problem if there is more than one DLL.
That shouldn't have been the case here, though.

cgf