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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:46:51 -0400
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Subject: Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
To: Andrey Repin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> When execveing a Cygwin process, a lot of data is submitted via shared
> memory, via data copying, and via a special parameter to the
> CreateProcess call with the mysterious name "lpReserved2".
>
> One problem is the differences in basic datatypes, which results in
> incompatible datastructures between 32 and 64 bit.  While this could be
> worked around, this doesn't help for the shared memory stuff, which
> depends on the installation path of the cygwin DLL.  The Cygwin DLL in
> C:\cygwin1 would use a different name for the shared mem regions than
> the Cygwin DLL installed into C:\cygwin2, independent of the target
> architecture.  This is by design since Cygwin 1.7.  One effect:  No tty
> sharing.
>

Since you know that the DLL regions are different what about execing
the process as if it were a windows native process?  I know you loose
the ability to do the parent/child relationship but it isn't any worse
than spawning a native process.

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