"/usr/bin/boxes" command fails to run, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64

[David Rothenberger]

On 11/14/2019 6:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/14/2019 8:36 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/14/2019 2:32 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
>>>> The "boxes" command fails to run on a Cygwin64 install two weeks ago.
>>>>
>>>> echo "hello" | /usr/bin/boxes
>>>> boxes: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Running boxes under strace shows that it is trying to open a file named "-" and
>>> exiting because that file doesn't exist.

I also ran it under strace and for me, it was trying to open a file 
named "u" in my home directory, so maybe this is some kind of buffer error.

-- 
David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org


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