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Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:38:24PM -0700, Sean Gugler wrote:
>On 9/5/05 1:24 PM, Eric Blake:
>> Check out the 20050905 snapshot, instead, and notice that Chris added this
>> patch:
>> * spawn.cc (av::fixup): Do win16 detection for .com files. Make sure
>> that buffer has been unmapped in all cases.
>
>Score! Snapshot 20050905 did the trick. A thousand grateful thanks
>to all involved.
So, just for the record, when someone says "This should be fixed in the latest
snapshot at http://cygwin.com/snapshots " that means that you actually have
to download a new snapshot rather than download an older snapshot and report
that things are still not working.
cgf
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