Re: Getting "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" when using various tools

Thanks for the reply.

I tried the suggested command, M-! test testfile.txt after first opening testfile.txt into a buffer. I got the same "Doing fork: Bad file descriptor" message.

It would seem that this result is consistent with the hypothesis. How would I adjust the path used by this version of xemacs?

In answering the questions asked of me, I am a new user of Xemacs and Cygwin, although I have some experience with Linux and FreeBSD.  As mentioned before, I am using the "C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\i686-pc-cygwin\xemacs-21.4.13.exe" binary for xemacs. I used the Cygwin setup.exe version 2.416 to install cygwin, but I can't figure out which version of cygwin I am using.

The funny thing is, though, that on another system I installed the same thing and it worked.  The big differences between the two systems are:

 - I built the working system, whereas my Info Manag dept. built the one that doesn't work
 - The working system is a stand alone, but the broken one is part of a domain. 

I am beginning to think that some form of the mkpasswd command might help me, but

Again, I really don't know what kinds of things to do to try an troubleshoot this problem, so any suggestions are greatly welcome.


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>>"Eric" == Eric Nute <[email protected]> writes:
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>    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" .
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>What happens if you do M-! grep something some-existing-file RET?
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>I suspect grep is not on the PATH that XEmacs knows about.
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>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).
>
>
>  
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Eric Nute <[email protected]>