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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:55:19 -0400
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Subject: fixing BLODA-caused fork failures
From: Adam Kellas <adam.kellas@gmail.com>
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My company uses Cygwin and we experience fairly frequent fork
failures, believed to be BLODA-related. I say "believed to be" because
in this corporate environment, like many, we cannot uninstall the
virus scanner even long enough to see what happens without it. The
presumed culprit in our case is Microsoft Forefront Endpoint
Protection, by the way.

So we need Cygwin and we're stuck with Forefront, putting us between a
rock and a hard place. It's clear from the documentation and mailing
list that the official stance wrt BLODA is "sorry, can't help you" and
I understand and accept that. I'm looking for the answer to a related
question: are BLODA-caused fork failures a logically unsolvable
problem due to the way Windows works or is it just a matter of round
tuits? In other words, if we were (hypothetically) able to pay someone
to make MS Forefront and Cygwin play nicely together, would that have
a chance of success? And would the Cygwin maintainers allow such work
into the code base or consider it an unfortunate precedent?

Thanks,
AK

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