To all users that have experienced the "Can't open display" problems: Try using one of the recent cygwin1.dll snapshots (June 22 or later). I believe that it should at least fix the problem for users running Aventail Connect. It fixed the problem for me on Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000 Pro with Aventail Connect 3.21. All clients pop up successfully regardless of whether they are in the exception list in the Aventail config file. The problem, as Mark Oskin pointed out earlier in this list, is with the support for the close-on-exec flag on socket descriptors. I came to the same conclusion in my own testing. Anyway, something about the way that the cygwin1.dll was implementing the close-on-exec flag was causing Aventail to mark the descriptor as being associated with a regular file, rather than a socket. The subsequent attempt in libX11 to set the socket to non-blocking mode then failed with ENOTSOCK. It turned out that close-on-exec was not fully implemented yet in the Cygwin kernel (at least not yet for sockets). Corinna Vinschen submitted changes on June 22 to properly handle the close-on-exec flag on sockets. I am not sure why there is different behavior in this respect between Aventail's wrappers around the Winsock 2 API and the native Winsock API itself, but in any case, everything seems to work now with Corinna's fix (many thanks to Corinna for making the fix). This may or may not help the "Can't open display" problem with other VPN and firewall software but its worth a try. Chris Landrieu _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
