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Date:	Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:56:53 -0600
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Subject:	Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?
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On 8/23/2013 13:16, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The original error message was certainly not clear but maybe we need
> to have something like:
>
> "Can't run 32-bit Cygwin programs in a 64-bit Cygwin environment"
>
> and vice versa with a, as you say, (ugh) way to turn this on and off.

I don't want this to end up being a bigger problem than the original 
behavior, either.

If you do end up deciding to block cross-Cygwin exec()s, shouldn't 
32-bit Cygwin refuse to run 64-bit Cygwin exes, too?

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