Re: Failed to execute rsh on Windows Vista

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 27 15:14, vachan shetty wrote:
> 12 [main] rsh 268 C:\Program Files\Cygnus\bin\rsh.exe:
> *** fatal error - co
> uldn't dynamically determine load address for 'rcmd'
> (handle 0x70040000), Win32
> error 127
> 
> The above error occured when I was trying to execute
> the rsh from the Latest Cygwin Version 1.5.25-7 on a
> Windows Vista machine.

The reason is that the rcmd function has been removed from Vista's
Winsock DLL.

> I replaced the cygwin1.dll with the cygwin1.dll 
> obtained from the http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 2007-12-21 (last update 2007-12-21 15:11 GMT). It
> seemed to work. Do you know when you would be
> incorporting the cygwin1.dll from the above snapshot
> into an official release.

Hopefully in 2008.


Corinna

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