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RE: Bad filenumber Error / warning messages in cygwin shell
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- Subject: RE: Bad filenumber Error / warning messages in cygwin shell
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:43:30 -0500
This is not a Cygwin/Xfree86 error. I suspect libforms89 is the issue
here and you need to talk to them.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zaphodb [mailto:zaphodb@wanadoo.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Bad filenumber Error / warning messages in cygwin shell
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm running a trial version of the commercial X-server Xwin32
> (version 5.11)
> on a W98 platform and I'm using the libforms89 library to run
> a X-window
> application from a cygwin shell. This works fine for me but
> while this application is running in the shell window I get
> loads and loads
> repetitions of a specific message:
>
> In select [asyn_io.c 170] Bad file number--Bad file number
>
> This alone seems to consume quite a bit of processing power.
> Does anybody know what is causing this and how this can be helped?
> Is this a libforms or cygwin or Xwin32 problem?
>
> T.i.a.
>
> Zaphod B.
>
>