2010/3/29 Mark McConnell <markd.mcconn...@gmail.com>: > RESOLVED. Windows Server 2008 has Data Execution Prevention (DEP) > enabled by default. Apparently there are a number of Cygwin programs > that are not compatible DEP. All of the symptoms that I described are > related to this. I've turned off DEP for all programs except crucial > Windows applications. > > I would prefer to make exceptions for Cygwin programs only, rather > than turning off DEP for all third party applications; but the unix > model of many small programs interoperating with one another would > seem to make this impractical. I'll investigate that further, but as > for the problem I described with my Cygwin installation on Server 2008 > SP2, I've resolved it. > > Thanks for your patience. > > Mark > --
By the way, I belatedly discovered that this is related to FAQ 14: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.setup-fails-on-ts Mark -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
