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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:19:49 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Cc: Anders Norlander <anorland AT hem2 DOT passagen DOT se>,
        cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch, Version 4: Problem solved
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In-Reply-To: <3738CB1C.90C61B3F@cityweb.de>; from Corinna Vinschen on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:28:12AM +0200

On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:28:12AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:14:09PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >Chris Faylor wrote:
>> >> [...]
>> >> This patch will be in the next snapshot.  Could someone
>> >> verify that this solves Corinna's problem?
>> 
>> That version of winnt.h screwed up cygwin.  It caused bash to
>> core dump.
>> 
>> cgf
>
>I've suggested earlier, simply to comment out the "QuadPart" members
>of LARGE_INTEGER and ULARGE_INTEGER, until we have a new winnt.h.
>I know, this works, because winsup doesn't use this QuadParts.
>This would have two advantages: `chown()' will work again and you
>would be able, to check in the security patch.

Actually, I've put the winnt.h patch back.  The problem was actually
in my own code.  It had nothing to do with winnt.h.

cgf