X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <183c528b0801310601s1c066c39n12850b36813f8052@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:01:42 -0500 From: "Brian Mathis" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin not working well with vista 64 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ashutosh Singh wrote: > Hi, > I downloaded the lates cygwin and I still see problems with > createProcess. > fork() fails in many cases. > Editing files is also an issue. Has the issue been punted, should I > forget > about making cygwin work > reliably on windows. I need XWindows badly and would have to move back > to > Exceed. Other utilities > work fine. I have done the rebase etc, as mentioned in the forums. > regards, > Ashutosh I have been running cygwin on Vista 64bit with no issues, and have not had to do anything other than the regular installation. I have not had to rebase or anything. The only config change I have made is to disable UAC in Vista, so maybe that would help (though not the best thing). I have not used X Windows specifically though, so maybe there is an issue directly related to that. -- 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/