Message-Id: <200406140250.i5E2oC85029478@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "GARY VANSICKLE" To: "'Gregg C Levine'" , Subject: [SEMI-OT]: XP SP2 (was: RE: Unable to open files including Korean names) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:50:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <002201c45161$ae4a50c0$6401a8c0@who5> X-IsSubscribed: yes > Hello from Gregg C Levine > Actually Gary, its called SP2 RC1, for XP. Its going through that > phase, with SP1 RC2 due out towards the end of the month, and the > actual SP2 going to the RTM phase so that its in time to be released > by the 21 July, date. (If you can believe that.) > I of course cannot. ;-) > Also, can you tell me, off list, where you got your copy? I was at an > OEM meeting for that guy's operating system, yesterday. The meeting > was held here in NYC. > Well, I'll reply to both in case anybody else is interested. It's available for download right off of msdn.microsoft.com, 200MB plus tax. I've only been using it for a few days now, but everything Cygwin that I use (gcc et al, perl, rxvt, etc) seems to still work fine. There's all kinds of massive security-related changes that I'm guessing could raise hell with a few programs though. Helpful hint though to anybody brave/foolish enough to install it: don't bother reporting any Cygwin problems to Cygwin until SP2 is actually released; doing so will serve no purpose. Probably can't hurt to send bug reports to MS though. One change that they're making could be a gigantic problem for Cygwin: Finally, after all these years, Windows will be "keeping the hot side hot and the cool side cool", or in non-McDLT-speak, tagging program and data memory areas and preventing code execution in data areas. This is a good (fantabulous?) if belated feature, but if I understand fork() correctly (which I don't), doesn't fork() allocate memory, copy some data and code over, and jump to the code? From what I read I think this would no longer work. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/