Re: DuplicateHandle() failing under MS Telnet Server

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:43:35PM +1300, Dan Plimak wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When trying to set up /bin/bash.exe as my default shell in MS Telnet Server
>under Windows 2000, I'd encountered the following message: 
>
>"... couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout"
>
>Investigation revealed that you guys are bailing out on a DuplicateHandle()
>failure when you notice that stdout is the same as stderr and attempt to
>give stderr a different handle than stdout.
>
>This patently won't work under MS Telnet server as from what I can tell (I
>_may_ be wrong), they are using a kludge where they make a handle from a
>socket fd, which is distinct from a regular Windows resource/file handle and
>hence things that may be done with a handle fail.
>
>I may be willing to look for a workaround for this problem--but first I need
>to make sure that one does not already exist.
>
>Again, I may be wrong (I had all of 5 minutes to think about this :-)), so
>your response will give me a hint whether to proceed investigating this or
>to drop it and get some more coffee.

Why not use the cygwin telnetd?  Then you won't have these problems.

cgf

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