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Re: Odd transient error about __impure_ptr
- From: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:01:52 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: 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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