Re: Getting "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" when using various tools
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.xemacs.general |
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| Organization | The XEmacs Project |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Nute <[email protected]> writes: Eric> I am using Xemacs, Cygwin version, on a Windows 2000 Eric> station. When I tried to use the tools, specifically "Tools Eric> -> Compare -> Two Files" or "Tools -> Grep -> Grep all files Eric> in directory", the tool fails with an error in the bottom Eric> line stating "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" . What happens if you do M-! grep something some-existing-file RET? I suspect grep is not on the PATH that XEmacs knows about. The other possibility is breakage in XEmacs handing off processes to Cygwin. What version of Cygwin are you using? Is this changed behavior, or are you a new XEmacs users? Have you updated (from a previous version) either XEmacs or Cygwin lately? A better place to ask is [email protected], and/or [email protected] (the latter is nearly defunct, but there are still a few subscribers who haven't joined the xemacs-beta list yet). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.