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From: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:19:05 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Steve B
> Sent: 30 September 2004 22:00

> I do not believe that I am using Process Explorer.

> Well, it wasn't cygrunsrv.exe that was crashing
> immediately after its kill.  Immediately after I kill
> cygrunsrv.exe it was UmxCfg.exe that was crashing! 
> This appears to be part of the Tiny Firewall (or tpf,
> Tiny Personal Firewall for those of you that heard of
> it back in the day) system.  I am going to investigate
> this newly discovered fact and I'll be sure to let you
> all know what I find out.

  Betcha it also does something similar to procexp in that it places a hook or
otherwise injects into the code space of the cygwin app.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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