Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

[ib at wupperonline dot de (Ingo Brueckl)]

In the meantime I could reproduce the bug (which was described the first time
in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00058.html and then in
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg01038.html) on a Windows 98SE PC
which never had anything to do with cygwin before and where I only copied the
program launching COMMAND.COM with argument 'dir' and the 20051227 snapshot
of cygwin1.dll. Same crash. So I suppose it's a bug in the dll.

Cygcheck -s didn't crash this time (as described in
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00010.html), it always runs fine
as long as started from a DOS command line box, but crashes as described if
started from the bash shell. This is the output from cygcheck -s -v -r, I
hope it'll help:

  Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
  Current System Time: Tue Jan 03 22:43:33 2006

  Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 Build 2222

  Path: C:\WINDOWS
        C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND

  SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
  WinDir: C:\WINDOWS


  TMP = `C:\WINDOWS\TEMP'
  TEMP = `C:\WINDOWS\TEMP'
  PROMPT = `$p$g'
  winbootdir = `C:\WINDOWS'
  COMSPEC = `C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM'
  DIRCMD = `/o:-gne'
  windir = `C:\WINDOWS'
  BLASTER = `A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6'
  CMDLINE = `cygcheck -s -v -r '
  POSIXLY_CORRECT = `1'

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2

  a:  fd             N/A    N/A
  b:  fd             N/A    N/A
  c:  hd  FAT32     4086Mb  31% CP    UN           TEST 98
  d:  hd  FAT32     8173Mb  84% CP    UN           DATEN
  f:  cd             N/A    N/A
  g:  cd             N/A    N/A


  Not Found: awk
  Not Found: bash
  Not Found: cat
  Not Found: cp
  Not Found: cpp (good!)
  Found: C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
  Not Found: gcc
  Not Found: gdb
  Not Found: grep
  Not Found: ld
  Not Found: ls
  Not Found: make
  Not Found: mv
  Not Found: rm
  Not Found: sed
  Not Found: sh
  Not Found: tar

  Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path

  Cygwin Package Information
  No setup information found
  Use -h to see help about each section

Ingo


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