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RE: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address
- From: Benjamin Cao <becao at progress dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:10:09 +0000
- Subject: RE: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address
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Hi Corinna,
I have tried the latest snapshot and have confirmed that with AllocationPreference enabled, I can start Cygwin without any crashes.
Thanks,
Ben Cao
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 7:49 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address
On Jul 28 17:26, Benjamin Cao wrote:
> Corinna,
>
> When I start Cygwin, with the AllocationPreference registry enable for
> VirtualAlloc, the shell immediate closes. I get the below error.
>
> 2 [main] sh 5240 c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - internal
> error reading the windows environment - too many environment
> variables?
>
> I guess you have answered the question to when we could get our
> testing running on Cygwin, but I'm unable to get to that point if the
> shell cannot start. Any advice on what I'm seeing now?
A bug in Cygwin. Actually, 2 bugs, one generic bug and one in 64 bit Cygwin only.
I applied patches to the git repo and I just uploaded new developer snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which contain the fixes.
I'm also creating new test releases 2.2.0-0.4 and upload and announce them later today.
Please give any of them a try, preferredly today, so I may be able to create the offical Cygwin 2.2.0 release today as well.
Thanks,
Corinna
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