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Subject:	Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its own good?
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On Oct 13 07:33, Fergus wrote:
>> > I'm wondering if that's one of these dreaded BLODA problems
>> > again...
>
>>  Can't go for 10 consecutive minutes without incurring the "Windows
>>  Explorer has stopped working" glitch. Excruciating.
>
> Maybe I shouldn't blame W7 for the weird Cygwin file mishandling. I 
> recently observed that every time the ".. stopped working" message appears 
> on screen, it is matched by the transient occurrence of a McAfee icon in 
> the taskbar. Of course, it being a work machine, I cannot disable McAfee in 
> order to research any links between strange Cygwin behaviours and it. Just 
> love workplace paranoia and the consequent imposed protections: the cure 
> is, always, so much worse than the disease.

Sounds bad.  And then, I ran the tests on a laptop running W7, just not
McAfeeized.


Corinna

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