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Re: Reproduced it finally


At 01:32 PM 12/6/2000, Charles Krug wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > And I assume you know advapi32.dll is in your path as sh.exe sees it, right?
>
>Yes, I just verified that, both in bash and in subshells, whether bash
>or sh.
>
>Were this the case, wouldn't it fail as soon as sh tried to spawn its
>first Cygwin application, rather than waiting until the 20th or 30th
>item or even longer?


Yes.


>I'm curious about the fact that it sometimes completes the rest of the
>script after the failure--sometimes with additional occurances of the
>same failure, but on occasion without further error.  And again, I've
>run the thing at least once with no errors from a fresh unpacking.
>
>The inconsistancy what I find must curious.


I'm guessing (only!) that the environment is somehow getting trashed in
some nested invocation.  That could explain the behavior.  I can't say 
that's it though...




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