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Re: Odd transient error about __impure_ptr


On  5 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>  Hard to say without a proper problem report[*], but it sounds like you 
>  have another version of cygwin1.dll in the PATH.  Windows looks for 
>  cygwin1.dll in the directory of the program before it looks at the PATH, 
>  and the standard cygwin.bat runs bash from /bin, so it finds the new DLL. 
>  If your shell.exe is in another directory, the older DLL in the PATH will 
>  take precedence. 

That's along the lines of what I thought.  What puzzled me was how it
just went away without even me having to logg out, let alone reboot. I
think I'll just put it down as one of those weird Windows things.

Thanks,

luke


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