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Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:13:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?
- References: <4AD41F23.50707@bonhard.uklinux.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 13 07:33, Fergus wrote:
>> > I'm wondering if that's one of these dreaded BLODA problems
>> > again...
>
>> Can't go for 10 consecutive minutes without incurring the "Windows
>> Explorer has stopped working" glitch. Excruciating.
>
> Maybe I shouldn't blame W7 for the weird Cygwin file mishandling. I
> recently observed that every time the ".. stopped working" message appears
> on screen, it is matched by the transient occurrence of a McAfee icon in
> the taskbar. Of course, it being a work machine, I cannot disable McAfee in
> order to research any links between strange Cygwin behaviours and it. Just
> love workplace paranoia and the consequent imposed protections: the cure
> is, always, so much worse than the disease.
Sounds bad. And then, I ran the tests on a laptop running W7, just not
McAfeeized.
Corinna
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