X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48DD0EDA.5020200@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:33:30 -0500 From: Matthew Woehlke Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: spdaley@gmail.com Subject: Re: Question about cygwin-1.5.25-11 release notes References: <5c8adab70809251754j6b96121cq51c145e9cb88f9bf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5c8adab70809251754j6b96121cq51c145e9cb88f9bf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Sean Daley wrote: > I've got a quick question regarding one of the bullet points on the > release of cygwin-1.5.25-11. > > - Fix a crash when creating stackdumps on Windows XP x64 Edition and > Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition. > > When it says crash, does that mean that the 2003x64 OS actually > crashes or a cygwin app will crash > on 2003x64? (Hopefully someone will chime in with a more authoritative answer, but...) Cygwin runs fine for me on 2k3 x64, so if you're worried that it just crashes in general, it doesn't. I'm guessing that means things that are supposed to non-destructively create stack traces (e.g. gdb) would crash, or possibly that the trace you get when something crashes for some other reason would cause a second crash (such that you don't get the trace). As we were discussing earlier, userspace apps should not be able to take out the OS :-), and since I'm not aware of anything in Cygwin that tries to run in kernel space, any OS crashes would not be Cygwin's fault. -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- "Who wants to sing?" -- Orcs (Warcraft II) -- 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/