On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:30:11PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >It's not a Cygwin handle. It's an internal Windows handle to the >current working directory. Ah! Doing a chdir to C:\ just before >alerting would fix this, except in the case of being terminated. If the process is terminated wouldn't this be a non-issue? cgf