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RE: cygwin not working well with vista 64
On 31 January 2008 14:02, Brian Mathis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ashutosh Singh wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I downloaded the lates cygwin and I still see problems with
>> createProcess. fork() fails in many cases.
>> Editing files is also an issue. Has the issue been punted, should I
>> forget about making cygwin work
>> reliably on windows. I need XWindows badly and would have to move back
>> to Exceed. Other utilities
>> work fine. I have done the rebase etc, as mentioned in the forums.
>> regards, Ashutosh
>
> I have been running cygwin on Vista 64bit with no issues, and have not
> had to do anything other than the regular installation. I have not
> had to rebase or anything. The only config change I have made is to
> disable UAC in Vista, so maybe that would help (though not the best
> thing).
Might be worth checking for interference from other installed applications
then:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
cheers,
DaveK
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