Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: geneSmith Subject: Re: Backticks hang with dynamic antivirus scanning Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:47:33 -0400 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.168.89.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Marco Moreno wrote, On 2/20/2004 11:46 PM: > I recently upgraded cygwin to the latest version and now I'm having > Command's dynamic antivirus protection conflict with Cygwin so that it > hangs whenever it encounters backticks in a shell script (e.g. > /etc/profile). Configuring the antivirus to ignore c:\cygwin had no > effect. If I disable dynamic virus protection, all is well. > > Has anyone else encountered this? Has anything changed in how backticks > are handled that might cause it to conflict with antivirus software? > Just trying to get a handle on this to submit a bug report to Command > Software. (Though I'm not holding my breath that they'll offer a > solution other than to avoid cygwin.) > > Thanks, > > Marco Moreno > > No one answered this back in Feb that I could tell. I am seeing a possibly related or similar problem. I am trying to build a large shall script based project under cygwin called RTEMS. It has been reported that anti-virus can somehow affect the build and cause almost random errors. I can't disable my a.v. since it requires a secret p/w. Could this really be the problem? -- Lit up like Levy's -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/