"Bad system call" error FAQ alert? (Was Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin)

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On 1/13/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/13/06, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote:
> > > > /usr/bin/initdb: line 564:  3312 Bad system call         "$PGPATH"/postgres
> > >
> > > Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README?
> >
> > I wonder if this has become sufficiently frequent to merit addition to the
> > FAQ.  I've seen this question in various forms at least 4 times in the
> > past three months (with two of those relating to PostgreSQL)...
>
> It's a good idea. Anyone want to suggest some wording?

Found some great wording at
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00039.html
so it's up at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.ipc

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