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Re: 1.7.10: ipconfig opens a new console
- From: René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:41:52 -0600
- Subject: Re: 1.7.10: ipconfig opens a new console
- References: <q2f5j7d5i3i554k93cu2qfj4duhm4kec6u@4ax.com>
On 2/8/2012 12:25 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> It used to be that when I ran ipconfig from bash, it would print
> output on stdout as usual. But for some time now, when I run
> ipconfig it opens a new console window, which then immediately
> closes again, making it impossible for me to read the output. At the
> same time, back in bash I see
>
> $ ipconfig 15 [main] bash 3060! _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: something
> failed for pid 0: res 3060, hProcess 0x68C, wr_proc_pipe 0x738 vs.
> 0x738, Win32 error 5
>
> My terminal is PuTTYcyg if that matters, although I get the same
> result in mintty. uname -r confirms that I'm really running 1.7.10
> this time.
It works fine under mintty, and rxvt on Windows XP. It doesn't open a
new console.
Perhaps you have a different ipconfig than the one that comes with
Windows... I don't know if Vista and 7 have a different one that doesn't
work in a terminal.
--
René Berber
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