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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:26:30 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:38:24PM -0700, Sean Gugler wrote:
>On 9/5/05 1:24 PM, Eric Blake:
>> Check out the 20050905 snapshot, instead, and notice that Chris added this
>> patch:
>> 	* spawn.cc (av::fixup): Do win16 detection for .com files.  Make sure
>> 	that buffer has been unmapped in all cases.
>
>Score!  Snapshot 20050905 did the trick.  A thousand grateful thanks
>to all involved.

So, just for the record, when someone says "This should be fixed in the latest
snapshot at http://cygwin.com/snapshots " that means that you actually have
to download a new snapshot rather than download an older snapshot and report
that things are still not working.

cgf

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