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On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:34:38PM -0400, Jonathan Pearson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The development group that I work in has been experiencing random
>failures when starting programs from Cygwin. The problem only occurs
>when McAfee's (version 8.7i) on-access scanner McShield is running. We
>do not have official control over this, so disabling it is not an
>option.

Sorry but that puts McAfee into the http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA
category.  Attempting to work around every single piece of software
which prevents Cygwin from behaving normally would conceivably be a
large undertaking and it is not something that is likely to be
attempted.

cgf

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