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On 6/7/2009 4:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I tested this change on XP 32 bit, 2K8 32 bit, W7 32 bit, and W7 64 bit,
> by running `cygport automake1.11 compile' and a subsequent `make check',
> which uses perl (and thus run-time loaded DLLs) a lot.

I don't have the expertise to follow this thread in detail, but I have 
one question from the user's point of view.  Are your patches strictly 
designed to solve problems in Vista and later, or might they have a 
(positive) impact under XP?

I'm asking because I run XP and have occasionally had mysterious cygwin 
problems (for instance I wasn't able to build emacs 22.3 using cygport 
because the build kept hanging when many subprocesses were called).  And 
I recall at least two other users (Steffen Sledz and Angelo Graziosi) 
who have reported problems that seemed to resemble BLODA but that 
couldn't be tracked down.  I don't think they were running Vista, but 
I'm not sure.

Ken

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