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From: Michael Meissner <meissner AT cygnus DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:20:47 -0400
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Win98 hangs building egcs
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In-Reply-To: <20000711234253.A32652@cygnus.com>; from Chris Faylor on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:42:53PM -0400

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:42:53PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:12:36PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> >I haven't seen it under Windows NT 4.0SP5, and I would imagine it probably
> >would not show up under Windows 2K, since that is a descendent of NT.  Now, the
> >upcoming Windows ME release, which is based on the 98 branch, I would suspect
> >would show the bug.
> 
> It has yet to be proved that this is a Cygwin bug and not a Windows 9x bug.
> 
> I would love for it to be shown to be a Cygwin bug because then I could fix
> it.  I can't fix bugs in Windows 9x or Windows ME.

I didn't mean to imply that it was a Cygwin bug (hence my speculation that
Windows ME would also fail).  I suspect Microsoft never envisioned that people
would want to do the 50 million create processes (or whatever a full make all,
make install, make check winds up eating) between reboots :-)

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