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>We tend to react strongly to suggestions that Cygwin, which runs in user
>space, could cause something like a BSOD.  Windows is far from a perfect
>OS but running a simple user program should not crash it.  That doesn't
>mean that there it is impossible for a simple user program to crash it
>but if Windows crashes, it's a serious Windows bug not a program bug.

Pedantically, it's a serious Windows bug, but does not let the program
off the hook.  The program could be using Windows in some unanticipated
incorrect way.  Correcting the BSOD in Windows would then change the
symptom to something less devastating, but the program would still need
to be corrected.  (Speaking as someone who once took out a timesharing
system three times before the operations staff asked me nicely to stop
exercising the bug in the OS.)

--paulr

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