Bad filenumber Error / warning messages in cygwin shell

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

This is not a Cygwin/Xfree86 error.  I suspect libforms89 is the issue
here and you need to talk to them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zaphodb [ mailto:zaphodb@wanadoo.nl ]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Bad filenumber Error / warning messages in cygwin shell
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm running a trial version of the commercial X-server Xwin32 
> (version 5.11)
> on a W98 platform and I'm using the libforms89 library to run 
> a X-window
> application from a cygwin shell. This works fine for me but
> while this application is running in the shell window I get 
> loads and loads
> repetitions of a specific message:
> 
> In select [asyn_io.c 170] Bad file number--Bad file number
> 
> This alone seems to consume quite a bit of processing power.
> Does anybody know what is causing this and how this can be helped?
> Is this a libforms or cygwin or Xwin32 problem?
> 
> T.i.a.
> 
> Zaphod B.
> 
>