Re: /bin/ gets deleted on error

[cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>]

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On 4/13/2017 10:02 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 4/13/2017 9:29 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 13/04/2017 15:13, Felipe Vieira wrote:
>>> Dear cygwin mailing list,
>>>
>>> For the second time this week my /bin/ folder gets obliterated on an
>>> error during normal usage. It is equivalent of doing the infamous "rm
>>> -rf  /bin" .
>>>
>>> 1) I would like to know if there is a log for cygwin somewhere so I
>>> can be more useful in specifying what happened.
>>>
>>> 2) My 'specs' are: windows 7 64 bits with cygwin64 . I wonder if
>>> cygwin64 is considered 'stable'.
>>
>> extremely stable
>>
> 
> Yes, all that I use.
> 
>>
>>> From what I recall the terminal was spamming messages containing the
>>> words "fork" , "-1" and some others which I don't recall. And what I
>>> did was trying to run a normal zsh script.
>>>
>>> I am not able to tell exactly what I did on both occasions to trigger
>>> this behavior.
>>
>> any history file on your home directory ?
>>
> 
> Don't forget to check the BLODA on your system, e.g. virus protection
> software.
> 

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