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Subject: RE: cygwin not working well with vista 64
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:27:03 -0000
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On 31 January 2008 14:02, Brian Mathis wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ashutosh Singh wrote:
>>    Hi,
>>    I downloaded the lates cygwin and I still see problems with   
>>    createProcess. fork() fails in many cases.
>>    Editing files is also an issue. Has the issue been punted, should I   
>>    forget about making cygwin work
>>    reliably on windows. I need XWindows badly and would have to move back 
>>    to Exceed. Other utilities
>>    work fine. I have done the rebase etc, as mentioned in the forums.   
>>    regards, Ashutosh
> 
> I have been running cygwin on Vista 64bit with no issues, and have not
> had to do anything other than the regular installation.  I have not
> had to rebase or anything.  The only config change I have made is to
> disable UAC in Vista, so maybe that would help (though not the best
> thing).

  Might be worth checking for interference from other installed applications
then:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda


    cheers,
      DaveK
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