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Re: bash page fault on Win98SE when running non-Cygwin programs


On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 12:05:03PM -0400, irwin wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:49:39 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Corinna managed to narrow down the problem with 16-bit programs so
>>there will be a fix in the next snapshot (and eventually in 1.5.18) but
>>without specific information about failing 32-bit programs there will
>>be no fix forthcoming for that problem.  Since all of cygwin consists
>>of 32-bit programs, this problem cannot be too prevalent.
>
>As it turns out, the 32-bit program that I thought was causing the
>problem was actually running a a very old EMX (remember EMX?) binary,
>which was the real culprit.  My apologies for the misdirection.

EMX?  Wow.  Yes, I do vaguely remember this.  Thanks for clarifying
this.  I was mildly worried that there was still another harder-to-find
bug lurking there.

>>Please try the 2005-Jun-18 snapshot when it eventually shows up at
>><http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
>
>The cygwin1 DLL in this snapshot has fixed the problem, at least for
>the 16-bit programs I have tried.  My thanks to you and Corinna.
>
>>In case it isn't obvious, this is a Windows 98/Me bug, not a Cygwin
>>bug.  That hardly matters, since we still have to deal with it, but I
>>thought I should mention this fact in the interests of full disclosure.
>
>A Windows bug?  I'm shocked.  Shocked!

I know! It was such a rare occurrence for Windows 9x that I just had to
mention it.  :-)

Thanks for verifying that this is fixed.

cgf

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