Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/30/14:58:00
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:11:45PM +0400, Alex Alexandrov wrote:
>Hi, Corinna Vinschen, you wrote
>
>>That's a good question. I'd translate this as "we have tested it
>>and verified that the problem exists", but I wouldn't bet on this.
>>After all I'm also not a native speaker.
>
>Yes, it seems you got them right. Today I've received the following message:
>
>>BEGIN OF MSG
>Hello Alexei,
>They reproduced the problem and a bug report was filed on the issue.
>Thanks,
>Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>< END OF MSG
>
>So it is really very broken... :-( Today I've modified wincap.cc so that it
>uses GetNativeSystemInfo instead of IsWow64Process for determining
>environment details so that I can set has_working_copy_on_write to false
>only for Itanium-based machines (not for x86_64). Will you apply the patch
>if I provide it?
No, not unless Microsoft indicates that they won't be fixing the problem.
This is a serious bug and it should be fixed properly not kludged around
in Cygwin.
cgf
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