From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:46:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c93aa09-880b-be4c-1532-68f492e2aabd@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SI2PR04MB58215F05E08B8CFC2C29DA45FE729@SI2PR04MB5821.apcprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On 25/08/2022 19:14, Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote:
> And this was exactly it. I downloaded the latest UPX version, and it
> crashed on startup. I downloaded the Linux version on another host,
> copied the setup program to that host and extracted it there. NOW I
> can update Cygwin...
I wonder if UPX compression of setup makes as much sense now as it did
20+ years ago.
Not only does it (occasionally) generate problems like this, but
also with malware detection heuristics.
OTOH, not using it would make setup ~4x larger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-28 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-24 20:46 Brian Cowan
2022-08-25 16:52 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-08-25 17:11 ` Jon Turney
2022-08-25 18:14 ` Brian Cowan
2022-08-28 15:46 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2022-08-31 12:14 ` Brian Cowan
2022-09-03 13:02 ` Andrey Repin
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