DuplicateHandle() failing under MS Telnet Server

[Dan Plimak <danp at systematik dot co dot nz>]

Hi,

When trying to set up /bin/bash.exe as my default shell in MS Telnet Server
under Windows 2000, I'd encountered the following message: 

"... couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout"

Investigation revealed that you guys are bailing out on a DuplicateHandle()
failure when you notice that stdout is the same as stderr and attempt to
give stderr a different handle than stdout.

This patently won't work under MS Telnet server as from what I can tell (I
_may_ be wrong), they are using a kludge where they make a handle from a
socket fd, which is distinct from a regular Windows resource/file handle and
hence things that may be done with a handle fail.

I may be willing to look for a workaround for this problem--but first I need
to make sure that one does not already exist.

Again, I may be wrong (I had all of 5 minutes to think about this :-)), so
your response will give me a hint whether to proceed investigating this or
to drop it and get some more coffee.

  -- danp


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