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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
