Re: Getting "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" when using various tools

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Nute <eric <at> lybrandnute.net> writes:

    Eric> I am using Xemacs, Cygwin version, on a Windows 2000
    Eric> station.  When I tried to use the tools, specifically "Tools
    Eric> -> Compare -> Two Files" or "Tools -> Grep -> Grep all files
    Eric> in directory", the tool fails with an error in the bottom
    Eric> line stating "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" .

What happens if you do M-! grep something some-existing-file RET?

I suspect grep is not on the PATH that XEmacs knows about.

The other possibility is breakage in XEmacs handing off processes to
Cygwin.  What version of Cygwin are you using?  Is this changed
behavior, or are you a new XEmacs users?  Have you updated (from a
previous version) either XEmacs or Cygwin lately?

A better place to ask is xemacs-beta <at> xemacs.org, and/or
xemacs-winnt <at> xemacs.org (the latter is nearly defunct, but there are
still a few subscribers who haven't joined the xemacs-beta list yet).

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