Re: 1.3.18-1: "can't create title mutex"

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Roland Schwingel wrote:

> Hi...
>
> > While running a big recursive make under Cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an SMP
> > system, I am getting occasional failures like these:
> >
> >  C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6
> >  C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6
> >
> > I am appending the output from "cygcheck -s -v -r".  Let me know if I
> > should provide additional information.
> >
> > - Pat
>
> I can verify this here also... The same problems with it here (on a
> NON-SMP Machine W2K SP3)... Especially with cypath... No problems yet
> with sh
>
> I think I have to switch back to 1.3.17 or is there anything new found
> about it yet?
>
> Roland

This wouldn't have anything to do with Cygwin trying to set the title of
the window to the name of the executing program?  Just a WAG, but adding
"notitle" to your CYGWIN environment variable might be a way out.
        Igor
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