From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 325 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2009 23:10:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 316 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2009 23:10:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from baron.benjammin.net (HELO baron.benjammin.net) (69.130.215.232) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:10:48 +0000 Received: from [192.168.125.8] (c-98-212-159-47.hsd1.il.comcast.net [98.212.159.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by baron.benjammin.net (8.14.1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id n1GNAJ5S003730 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:10:45 -0600 Message-ID: <4999F1D6.2000004@benjammin.net> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:10:00 -0000 From: Ben Kamen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does CYGWIN work on Windows 2008 x86 architecture ? References: <49993A6F.5010804@bull.net> <20090216110707.GA31871@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090216110707.GA31871@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2009-02/txt/msg00375.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Works fine for me. Except in one case: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00459.html > > I opened a support case at Microsoft but it has been refused. > > Since the problem occurs in a Microsoft DLL, we have no way to fix it > in Cygwin. Cygwin 1.7 has a crude workaround for this situation, > though. So your choices are > > Boy if that doesn't smack of monopoly abuse. Brings back memories of DR-DOS and others. -Ben -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/