My company uses Cygwin and we experience fairly frequent fork failures, believed to be BLODA-related. I say "believed to be" because in this corporate environment, like many, we cannot uninstall the virus scanner even long enough to see what happens without it. The presumed culprit in our case is Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection, by the way.
So we need Cygwin and we're stuck with Forefront, putting us between a rock and a hard place. It's clear from the documentation and mailing list that the official stance wrt BLODA is "sorry, can't help you" and I understand and accept that. I'm looking for the answer to a related question: are BLODA-caused fork failures a logically unsolvable problem due to the way Windows works or is it just a matter of round tuits? In other words, if we were (hypothetically) able to pay someone to make MS Forefront and Cygwin play nicely together, would that have a chance of success? And would the Cygwin maintainers allow such work into the code base or consider it an unfortunate precedent? Thanks, AK -- 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
