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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> - In my experience, I have to rebase everything (Windows 7, like
>> Vista, shows this fork-failure behavior depending on where dll's
>> load into virtual memory); that's ok, though not fun
> 
> I haven't found that on any of my Win7 installations but that probably
> reflects more my usage than yours.  Still rebasing everything is
> probably overkill, though likely easier to do.

You also have to consider is whether you have UAC enabled on your Win7 
installation AND whether you're running 32-bit or 64-bit. You may not 
think these things should matter but in my experience, they do.

-Edward

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