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Re: Cygwin, Vista, and rcmd
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 17:04:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cygwin, Vista, and rcmd
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705071129060.31105@localhost.localdomain>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:41:28AM -0700, cygwin@harmlesslion.com wrote:
>I've been watching the groups, Google, and so forth with little luck to
>resolving the issue seen by myself and a few other people:
>
>$ rlogin blah@blah
> 9617 [main] rlogin 5392 e:\cygwin\bin\rlogin.exe: *** fatal error -
>couldn't dynamically determine load address for 'rcmd' (handle
>0x75E70000), Win32 error 127
>Hangup
>
>So I finally did some research myself. I don't have a solution, but i have
>another name for the problem!
>
>Error code 127 is the 'procedure not found' code in Win32. I searched
>through the code and the DLLs involved, and found that ultimately, rlogin
>is looking for 'rcmd' in mswsock.dll (linked through wsock32.dll). The
>'rcmd' export is clearly available in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (the two
>other versions I checked), and conspicuously absent in Vista. (Checked
>with depends.exe).
>
>The only thing I could find on the development list was a note from July
>by Corinna Vinschen that there was work in progress towards replacing
>the winsock calls -- looks like we're going to need that for Vista.
Have you tried a snapshot? http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
cgf
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