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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:33:30 -0500
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Question about cygwin-1.5.25-11 release notes
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Sean Daley wrote:
> I've got a quick question regarding one of the bullet points on the
> release of cygwin-1.5.25-11.
> 
> - Fix a crash when creating stackdumps on Windows XP x64 Edition and
>   Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition.
> 
> When it says crash, does that mean that the 2003x64 OS actually
> crashes or a cygwin app will crash
> on 2003x64?

(Hopefully someone will chime in with a more authoritative answer, but...)

Cygwin runs fine for me on 2k3 x64, so if you're worried that it just 
crashes in general, it doesn't.

I'm guessing that means things that are supposed to non-destructively 
create stack traces (e.g. gdb) would crash, or possibly that the trace 
you get when something crashes for some other reason would cause a 
second crash (such that you don't get the trace).

As we were discussing earlier, userspace apps should not be able to take 
out the OS :-), and since I'm not aware of anything in Cygwin that tries 
to run in kernel space, any OS crashes would not be Cygwin's fault.

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Matthew
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