[OT] polite response to rather rude reponse...

[Barry Smith at SourceLink]

First --

Thank you for the tone.  I'm trying to be helpful.

> Stop spreading FUD. There is no way a userland app like "run.exe" can
"cause" 
> a blue screen. Only something running in kernel space -- like windows core
code, 
> or certain device drivers -- can ever do that. 

Then I guess you don't read the cygwin archives, because that's where I read
the 
entire thread while I was researching RUN/START execution under cygwin.

Barry Smith
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
Charles Wilson
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:57 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash -- on
task now

Barry Smith at SourceLink wrote:

> I just read a thread where Cyg-X RUN.EXE would cause a blue screen 
> crash,

Stop spreading FUD. There is no way a userland app like "run.exe" can
"cause" a blue screen. Only something running in kernel space -- like
windows core code, or certain device drivers -- can ever do that.




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