> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:41 PM, René Berber wrote: > > 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. > > -- > > Works fine for me (running Windows 7).
OK. Must be something odd about my environment then. My host is WinXP. Good idea about having a different ipconfig, but mine appears to be the usual system one: $ type ipconfig ipconfig is hashed (/win/c/WINDOWS/System32/ipconfig) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple