On Jun 7 07:37, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/7/2009 4:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> I tested this change on XP 32 bit, 2K8 32 bit, W7 32 bit, and W7 64 bit, >> by running `cygport automake1.11 compile' and a subsequent `make check', >> which uses perl (and thus run-time loaded DLLs) a lot. > > I don't have the expertise to follow this thread in detail, but I have > one question from the user's point of view. Are your patches strictly > designed to solve problems in Vista and later, or might they have a > (positive) impact under XP?
They are designed to fix a generic problem introduced in 1.7 due to the long pathname support, not a Vista-only problem. It was a coincidence that the guys involved in the discussion of that issue were running Vista/W7. The only difference of Vista/W7 to earlier system is the additional ASLR feature which could help to plaster over the issue in a non-reproducible way. */me ducks to escape Chucks slap* Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
