X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <183c528b0801310601s1c066c39n12850b36813f8052@mail.gmail.com> Subject: RE: cygwin not working well with vista 64 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:27:03 -0000 Message-ID: <00f001c8641d$baca52f0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <183c528b0801310601s1c066c39n12850b36813f8052@mail.gmail.com> 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 31 January 2008 14:02, Brian Mathis wrote: > 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). Might be worth checking for interference from other installed applications then: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/