X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45746641.30603@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:17:37 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Vista x64 STARTUPINFO Issue References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 McArdle, Christian wrote: > As I understand it, cygwin doesn't yet work on Vista x64. Does anyone know > if a fix is under development? > >> From what I have read, it is related to Windows no longer using the >> STARTUPINFO reserved parameters to pass information onto the new process. >> I have no idea exactly how cygwin does this, but I've done similar things >> in a more portable fashion using named pipes (named after a newly created >> GUID), so whether that would be a solution or not, I don't know... From the above, it's seems like you've read this thread but if not, this is the current state of affairs: If you have some ideas that you'd like to propose, feel free. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/