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Re: Info on "Can't open display"
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:34:22PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
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>> You will lose fork() support for sockets if you use winsock32 directly.
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>I know. What I want to see if this display problem goes away with it.
>I know it is not the best way.
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>> I'm much more keen on identifying why the problem occurs - we can
>> probably solve it quickly inside cygwin1.dll once we know that.
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>Can anyone build a debug version of Cygwin1.dll with the Egor Duda patch he
>posted this morning? I do not have time to fool around with Cygwin code.
I'm sure everyone knows this, but Egor's patch was just a temporary
commenting out of some AF_UNIX security code. It wasn't a real "fix".
So, don't get too excited if things start working for you after applying
the patch.
cgf