Cygwin's RUN command and Windows Vista Beta 2

[Bobby McNulty]

Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:22:02PM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>>>> The RUN commands that comes with Cygwin-X
>>>> (\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe) has a problem on Windows Vista Beta
>> 2.
>>>> When I tried running Xwin.exe and ssh.exe using that RUN command on
>>>> Vista, it caused a blue-screen crash of the OS.
>>> Clarification: This isn't a problem on Windows Vista Beta 2, it is
>>> a problem *with* Windows Vista Beta 2.
>>>
>>> cgf
>>
> 
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> <snip>
> 
> 
>> I'll of course be reporting the problem to Microsoft as well, since
>> nothing the program does should cause a crash.
> 
> 
> Bingo!  That's Chris' point.
> 
> 
Could have sworn the Cygwin page stated "We don't support beta software"
Depending on the version, SFU is supposed to be on there.
It has posix support.
This learned while playing with Windows XP SP 2 with SFU.
Bobby


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