From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30998 invoked by alias); 19 May 2011 15:39:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 30865 invoked by uid 22791); 19 May 2011 15:39:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_SV,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm26.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (HELO nm26.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com) (98.138.90.89) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Thu, 19 May 2011 15:39:26 +0000 Received: from [98.138.90.57] by nm26.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2011 15:39:25 -0000 Received: from [98.138.84.34] by tm10.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2011 15:39:25 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp102.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2011 15:39:25 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@173.48.46.160 with login) by smtp102.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 May 2011 08:39:25 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECADA42804C for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 11:39:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:39:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Repeated problems with svn even after rebaseall and peflagsall on Windows 7 Message-ID: <20110519153923.GA9879@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110517011110.GA22552@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <688D8B269DCBDE44A466DC43D403624C0155CCFE40@pfi-mail> <4DD537F7.4010901@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DD537F7.4010901@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00279.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:32:07AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 5/19/2011 11:25 AM, Mike Dahmus wrote: >> Nope, didn't help; in fact, the rebase at 0x77000000 (whatever the >> recommendation was) broke things much worse; and now even bash won't start >> without a million access violations. I did go out of my way to suggest alternatives, too. Apparently they were ignored. >> Why is this even necessary anyways? Other than "because it's always been >> this way"? I've been as stalwart a defender of cygwin as you'd find at my >> various companies over the years but this wart is getting really hard to >> ignore. In particular, since I myself can't do subversion or various other >> things any more without devolving to something like (ugh) tortoise. > >Short answer: It's an artifact of emulating fork on Windows. Actually the real reason is because we just like annoying people. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple