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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 17:55:14 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Tim Prince <tprince AT computer DOT org>
CC: Basant Kukreja <Basant DOT Kukreja AT oracle DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: XP 64 bit : 32 bit emulation : fork problem : Cygwin 1.3.5
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Tim Prince wrote:
> 
> The most recent success story I have heard, with a modified cygwin1.dll (not
> supported on this list) was with XP Server build 3505.   My last success
> with a Pro build was with build 2446.  These builds have changed continually
> in the details relevant to cygwin, which must be one of the strategies
> employed by Microsoft to discourage use of cygwin.

Maybe I'm begin naive, but I don't think MS gives a rat's #!&# about
cygwin -- certainly not enough to deliberately modify things just to
screw us up.  I mean, c'mon, we're not Lotus...

fork/exec is pretty hard to get "right" -- even when you throw thousands
of code monkeys at the problem.  I'm not surprised that things are
fluid... 

--Chuck

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