Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Tue Aug 31 16:36:00 GMT 2004


On 8/31/2004 8:55 AM, fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> There have been two strange changes in behaviour/ response/ output that I
> have noticed recently, and that I can only attribute to the installation of
> XP SP2

I'm using SP2.

> I had been using the latest cygwin1.dll snapshot but reverted to the current
> cygwin1.dll when I noticed this. 

I'm using the yesterday's snapshot (the one before the latest one).

> 1. setup: the column width allowed for "Current" is now greatly increased

WFM.

> 2. cygcheck -c used to present its output  
> 	package	version	OK
> or maybe occasionally
> 	package	version	Incomplete
> very conveniently, package by package, line after line. Now after installing
> SP2 either blank lines alternate, or the word OK is presented below the
> information package..version.. 

WFM.

> Of course, it could be my horrible machine or my bad driving of it.

SP2 did not cause any of these problems on my machine.  Of course, that 
doesn't mean it didn't cause these problems on your machine :-)

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