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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:08:33 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Windows update vs. cygrunsrv
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On Oct 12 15:45, Eric Blake wrote:
> I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am
> reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same
> issue.  When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k,
> the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows
> 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an
> instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had
> stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes.  I
> don't know what the Microsoft update was trying to do
> to running services during the update, but it obviously
> didn't interact very well with cygrunsrv.

I have the converse experience.  I'm usually running three services
under cygrunsrv (syslogd, sshd, esd) and today I used Windows Update,
too, to get the latest security bugfixes.  I had (and never had)
problems to do this while my services were still running.


Corinna

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