ash "gotcha", other 1.7 upgrade wrinles

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Oct 27 15:08:00 GMT 2009


On 10/27/2009 10:17 AM, Edward Lam wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> - In my experience, I have to rebase everything (Windows 7, like
>>> Vista, shows this fork-failure behavior depending on where dll's
>>> load into virtual memory); that's ok, though not fun
>>
>> I haven't found that on any of my Win7 installations but that probably
>> reflects more my usage than yours. Still rebasing everything is
>> probably overkill, though likely easier to do.
>
> You also have to consider is whether you have UAC enabled on your Win7
> installation AND whether you're running 32-bit or 64-bit. You may not
> think these things should matter but in my experience, they do.

In case it's useful for someone, I'm running UAC (the default) on 32-bit Win7.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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