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From:	"Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject:	RE: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)
Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:28:38 -0500
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Wget appears to still work.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:07 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)
> 
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:33:00PM -0400, Philip Gladstone wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>Ok.  I've changed the algorithm in select.  It only opens a DGRAM 
> >>socket now, one time per thread.  It uses this to terminate 
> the socket 
> >>thread, if necessary.  This socket is never closed until the thread 
> >>terminates.
> >>
> >>It sounds like this would more or less fix the problem that you're 
> >>seeing.  Would you mind trying a new snapshot?
> >>
> >>http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >
> >This fixes it for me! Thanks immensely.
> 
> That's good news!  Thanks for the fast feedback.
> 
> I've cc'ed the cygwin mailing list since this has been a long 
> standing problem.
> 
> For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks 
> like a change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded 
> "slows down to a crawl with Symantec AntiVirus" problem.
> 
> This may also improve the performance of things that use 
> sockets slightly.
> 
> So, I'd appreciate reports on the latest snapshot.  Does it 
> fix any problems?  Cause any problems?  No change?
> 
> In this one case, I'd like to hear "me toos" since the change 
> was to a fundamental part of cygwin and it is in socket code, 
> which has proved to be problematic.  So, I'd like to know if 
> things still work on Windows 9x and all flavors of NT.
> 
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> "Things" would be, openssh, telnet, ftp, rsync, etc.  
> Anything which uses sockets or communicates via TCP/IP.
> 
> I've reset the reply-to for this message to the cygwin 
> mailing list, so if there is further Cygwin/X discussion 
> necessary, please make sure that it goes to the cygwin-xfree 
> mailing list.
> 
> cgf
> 
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