Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running

Jonathan Arnold jdarnold@buddydog.org
Fri Jan 21 19:02:00 GMT 2005


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> 
>>1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine.
>>
>>2] Start rxvt.  Try "DoD" again. It gets about halfway through its
>>startup process, then hangs.
>>
>>3] Quit rxvt and try again. "DoD" works fine.
>>
>>I tried the same procedure with the regular Cygwin bash shell, and
>>it behaves the same way.
> 
> Do you mean that the regular Cygwin bash shell makes DoD hang too?  As in,
> start a Command Prompt, run cygwin.bat from it, and DoD still hangs?

More or less. I have a shortcut with the following:

D:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE /c D:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

And that makes DoD hang just like rxvt does.

>>Any ideas on what it could be?
> 
> A WAG, and I may be really off on this: Cygwin uses TCP/IP sockets (which
> essentially require a TCP/IP port) to emulate Unix domain sockets.  If
> rxvt reserves a Unix domain socket (even if it's not using X), and DoD
> tries to access the same port, because it's somehow predefined and it
> expects it to be free, there could be a conflict.  I can't think of
> anything else in Cygwin that would interfere with a (presumably)
> non-Cygwin application.

Well, unless the regular bash shell does it too, that probably isn't
correct. Like I said, it is very weird and it took me some time to
figure it out.

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Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -
  William H. Mauldin


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