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Re: Cygwin and firewalls (FAQ alert)
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, René Berber wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Another thing to mention is the fact that programs other than firewalls
> > might have that behavior (notably Norton Ghost and various antivirus
> > programs).
Two points, addressed separately.
> Norton Ghost? That one is a hard disk duplication program, nothing to
> do with firewalls or antivirus.
Umm, I did say "programs other than firewalls", and "...and various
antivirus programs", which puts Norton Ghost in neither category, AFAICS.
> I've never seen problems with it and Cygwin.
> Just to clarify.
True, my mistake. Norton Ghost is the one that screws up the PATH by
putting in quoted entries. The one I meant was Google Desktop Search,
which locked files intermittently (see the recent report by Gary Van
Sickle: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00906.html>).
Igor
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