Vista 64 users, please test snapshot

[Danny]

Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> I've applied a patch to Cygwin which should workaround what appears to
> be a compatibility bug in WOW64 on Vista 64.  If you want details, see
> the huge comment in the sources, file dcrt0.cc, get_cygwin_startup_info().
> 
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM
> 
> Please try the latest snapshot DLL from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> Note that this snapshot will show weird directory related behaviour when
> trying to run tclsh, gdb -w resp. insight, or strace.  This is the
> result of another change and has nothing to do with Vista 64.
> 
> Corinna
> 


as for that vista32 issue i was having, i let it sit around for a while, and 
got this:

      5 [main] zsh 5996 C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fatal error - unable to 
remap C:\cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.2\zsh\zutil.dll to same address as parent
(0x290000) != 0x360000
      5 [main] zsh 4372 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 5996, Win32 error 
183
    618 [main] zsh 4372 fork: child 5996 - died waiting for dll loading, errno 
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