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Re: [1.7.7 +] startxwin works unless using recent cygwin1.dll snapshot


On Jan 27 12:39, Aaron Peromsik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been following the list archives for several months, watching for
> things that would improve the stability of tcsh scripts on Win7 Enterprise
> x64. Some recent messages about memory leaks in cygwin1.dll led me to try
> the resulting snapshot.
> 
> I started with the 20110117 snapshot. Stability improved, though I still
> do occasionally get some of the same failed allocation messages as
> mentioned in the "regular tcsh crashes" and one other thread. They are not

Maybe you could help our short memory and give us pointers to these
threads?

> reproducible enough to diagnose, so that is not the subject of this
> message.
> 
> However I did find that when using the snapshot DLL, "startxwin" fails.
> When using the original 1.7.7 DLL, X runs fine. I also tried the new
> 20110127 snapshot and it didn't help startxwin. I did try rebaseall for no
> particular reason but it didn't help.

I can't reproducxe this problem on W7 under the current from CVS (which
is identical to 20110127).


Corinna

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