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Re: services not starting with 20060104 snapshot


On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > > >> Also, what version of XP are you running?  Pro?  Is it up-to-date
> > > >> with all service packs and updates?
> > > >
> > > >I'm running XP Pro SP1, with most updates applied (except KB835409
> > > >and KB910437, which are pending).
> > >
> > > Maybe that is a clue, as Yitzchak suggested.  I'd missed that in the
> > > cygcheck output.  I'm running SP2 and I believe Corinna is also.
> >
> > It does look like a problem with SP1 (and Karl's message supports this
> > as well).  Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to install SP2 on this
> > machine (due to licensing restrictions).  So I'll have to dig until a
> > solution is found.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, the ssh daemon works just fine with the 20051003
> > snapshot.  I'll try to track all the changes to fhandler_console
> > between then and now to see which one tickled this problem.
> >
> > Thanks for helping me get to the bottom of this.
>
> Ok, I've tracked it down to these two changes:
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q4/msg00162.html> and
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q4/msg00166.html>.  Commenting out
> the if test in the beginning of set_console_state_for_spawn() allows the
> sshd server to start successfully *and* show the output of a command.
>
> Is real_path.iscygexec() the right test for noncygwin_process?  It looks
> reversed...

And indeed it was.  Negating that test brought back the output of commands
invoked via ssh.  I'll submit a patch to cygwin-patches in a bit.  Whew!
	Igor
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