From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Tsekov To: Jeff Mincy Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh: Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 07:06:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BEBF0BE.8A983D82@syntrex.com> References: <15339.18258.830000.776758@antarres.muniversal.com> <3BEBC7E8.CBA26EA9@syntrex.com> <15339.61133.650056.275129@delphioutpost.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-11.t/msg00529.html Jeff Mincy wrote: > > From: Pavel Tsekov > 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/