Problem with 'cvs login'

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:43:06PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>"Rancier, Jeff" wrote:
>
>> |    passenv     = PATH
>
>I don't know if this applies in your situation, but if xinetd is
>stripping SYSTEMROOT from the child process' environment, then all
>socket functions in that process will fail.  I think recent versions of
>the cygwin1.dll have measures to prevent this from happening, but just
>for grins try adding SYSTEMROOT to the above and see if it makes any
>difference.

If that really does fix the problem then something is broken in CYGWIN.

Corinna fixed things so that this should no longer be a problem:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-11/msg00014.html

cgf

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