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Barry Smith at SourceLink wrote:

> > Stop spreading FUD. There is no way a userland app like "run.exe" can
> "cause"
> > a blue screen. Only something running in kernel space -- like windows core
> code,
> > or certain device drivers -- can ever do that.
> 
> Then I guess you don't read the cygwin archives, because that's where I read
> the
> entire thread while I was researching RUN/START execution under cygwin.

That doesn't mean that 'run' was at fault.  If a user-mode program
results in a BSOD that means it exercised a bug in a kernel-mode driver,
such as a faulty virus scanner or other "security" type crapware.  There
is simply no way that a user-mode program can cause a BSOD on its own.

Brian

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