On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:32:07AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 5/19/2011 11:25 AM, Mike Dahmus wrote: >> Nope, didn't help; in fact, the rebase at 0x77000000 (whatever the >> recommendation was) broke things much worse; and now even bash won't start >> without a million access violations.
I did go out of my way to suggest alternatives, too. Apparently they were ignored. >> Why is this even necessary anyways? Other than "because it's always been >> this way"? I've been as stalwart a defender of cygwin as you'd find at my >> various companies over the years but this wart is getting really hard to >> ignore. In particular, since I myself can't do subversion or various other >> things any more without devolving to something like (ugh) tortoise. > >Short answer: It's an artifact of emulating fork on Windows. Actually the real reason is because we just like annoying people. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
