Re: cygwin + vista x64

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> Corinna,
>
> I've been trying to figure out why cygwin isn't working properly on
> Vista x64. I saw the thread you posted to here:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00595.html
>
> I see that cygwin is performing the trick outlined here:
>
> http://www.catch22.net/tuts/undoc01.asp
>
> (Search for "Pass arbitrary data to a child process!")
>
> This is achieved because the child_info class is declared to have:
>
> DWORD zero[4]; // must be zeroed
>
> It appears as if this trick is no longer working under Vista x64. The
> question is, does this code now have to resort to using
> VirtualAllocEx/WriteProcessMemory, or is there a way around it?
>
> Have you been able to isolate this into a simple binary test? I am
> currently running on a Vista x64 system right now with VS2005
> installed in case you would like me to try out anything which may be
> of help.


You may be interested in this update from Corinna today:

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00159.html>


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