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Re: fixing BLODA-caused fork failures


Am 03.10.2013 22:55, schrieb Adam Kellas:
My company uses Cygwin and we experience fairly frequent fork
failures, believed to be BLODA-related. I say "believed to be" because
in this corporate environment, like many, we cannot uninstall the
virus scanner even long enough to see what happens without it.

In my experience the culprit is most often the "real-time" or "behavioral" component of the anti virus program. Uninstalling the virus program is a bad idea and it will certainly draw the ire of corporate IT, but you may persuade them to exclude the whole Cygwin installation tree from these two functions. In any case I'd try to get a test machine from IT and try if that helps.

> So we need Cygwin and we're stuck with Forefront, putting us
> between a rock and a hard place.

AFAIK Forefront uses the same engine on the client as MSE. MSE has not been a problem w.r.t. Cygwin for me, so either the rules used by Forefront have been sharpened or the fork problems may not be related to it after all. Do you use other programs that are based on Cygwin, like NoMachine NX or other (perhaps in-house) programs that insist on putting their DLL at fixed address spaces?


Regards,
Achim.



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