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Re: [starksb@ebi.ac.uk: 1.3.2 -> 1.3.3: ssh-add fails on win98: "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."]
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:55:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:03:47PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:12:16 -0400
>>>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
>>
>>> With the change that I just checked in ssh-add seems to be working
>>> again.
>>
>>Your change cause a problem only on my Win98 SE box. Bash will
>>hang up with a command substitution like the following example.
>>$ `echo`
>>You can get the strace log via
>>http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~fujieda/cygwin/bash-s.log.bz2
>>I'm sorry I don't track it down yet.
>
>I can duplicate this. It don't think that it is my change. I just
>built a 1.3.3 version with only my changes and it doesn't hang. The
>1.3.4 in cvs does hang, though.
>
>I hate to say this but it seems to be wincap related. This makes soem
>sense since it seems to be win9x related.
It was wincap related and it should now be fixed.
Just looking for the term 'wincap.*pipe' was enough to spot the problem.
cgf