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Subject:	Re: Cygwin and Windows Vista Beta 2
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--On 06 June 2006 20:11 -0400 Chuck McDevitt wrote:

> Just an FYI:  Cygwin's fork() implementation has an intermittent bug
> when running on Windows Vista Beta 2
>
> The odd thing is that it sometimes works, and sometimes gives this
> error.

It isn't just under Vista - this is an issue I am seeing under XP: see my 
thread on sshd, with the same intermittent errors in fork().

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Robin Walker (Junior Bursar), Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET, UK
rdhw AT cam DOT ac DOT uk  http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/  Tel:+44 1223 335528

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