starting cygwin shell

[Dave Korn]

On 07/04/2013 19:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 06:16:17PM +0000, Gene wrote:

>> save: fork_level=1 SetHandleInformation() failed: fd 0 handle 0x3 type
>> 2: Th e parameter is incorrect.
> 
> That error message doesn't seem to be coming from Cygwin.  I have
> grepped the Cygwin DLL and *sh* and don't see it anywhere.
> 
> Are you possibly using other binaries besides Cygwin ones?

  A quick google suggests it comes from MKS.  Trying to mix Cygwin tools and
MKS ones at the same time won't generally work well, and is probably the cause
of the shell problems too - MKS apparently is known to have problems under Win7.

  Gene, try removing MKS from your PATH setting.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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