Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/01/18/14:59:30
Hulloderr folks.
Damnit all.. I bet everyone working on this project wants to just forget
95/98. I would too! :| 9x seems to be causing so many headaches compared
to NT. Well, here's a new one. Actually its not new at all. Search for
"kernel32" in the list-archives and you'll find a bunch of
overly-coincidental cases of people having problems with kernel32.dll page
faulting.
On 11/11/98 John Mamer described the exact same problem that I am having,
and many other people before and after have posted about what sounds like
the same bug popping up in different places, most recently by Glen Spell on
12/28.
I'm running Win98lite (basically just 98 w/the OSR2 versions of
comdlg32.dll and shell32.dll). I've got the latest coolview. I've tried
both Andy Piper's and Sergey's X11R64 binaries. I grabbed the OSR2 version
of kernel32.dll and tried that but it just crashes 98 on startup, as one
might expect. I tried to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the OSR2
kernel32.dll, so that cygwin programs might use it and the rest of windows
would ignore it. I don't even know if windows will load different versions
of a dll at the same time, but it was worth a shot. I even tried the
y2k.exe update for 98, hoping to repeat my previous fluke of discovering
the usbupd.exe 95freezing fix. No go.
Glen Spell wrote:
> I suspect either a bug in the fork process on Windows 95 or
> a hardware problem that B19 failed to expose.
> I have [now] ruled out hardware problems.
I suspect the same. The three programs that crash for me are xterm, xgdb
and ddd. All of these (spawn/fork/whatever)
(children/processes/shells/whatever). I don't know much, but I'm beginning
to think it might just be easier for me to write the drivers I need for a
real *nix.
thanks everyone. let me know what you think.
Joe Soroka
jsoroka AT unixg DOT ubc DOT ca
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