Re: ssh: Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov@syntrex.com>]

Jeff Mincy wrote:
> 
>    From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov@syntrex.com>
>    Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:11:20 +0100
> 
>    Jeff Mincy wrote:
>    >
>    > I get "Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket"
>    > when I try to do ssh X11 forwarding for the following command:
>    >     'ssh -X -f jeff@delphioutpost.com xemacs'
>    >
>    > The contents of ssh -v output is attached:
> 
>    Ok you can look for more information on this topic and possible
>    solutions if you search the mailing list using "The descriptor is a
>    file, not a socket".
> 
>    [ ... ]
> 
> I had searched the archive for the entire
>   "Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket"
> and got 5 hits (starting with my report of this problem in a snapshot)
> doing the search on
>   "descriptor is a file not a socket"
> gets ten pages of hits on rsync, inetd, postgres, cvs, getpeername.
> Is there a particular message that I'm missing?

Hehe, ok :) This seems to be a common problem on Win9x systems. The
suggested
solution generally was to upgrade to a recent CVS snapshot version of
cygwin1.dll
and see if it helps or upgrade to WinNT/2k/XP.

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