On Tue, 30 Nov, 2004 at 05:50:29PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > Well, I suppose so, but subtle and borderline hardware failures can have > ever such bizarre, transient, and unpredictable consequences (cf. memory > timing issues and Sig11 failures at times of heavy stress
Sure... but I don't think running /bin/true counts as heavy stress. > Have you got any kind of anti-virus or firewall software on that machine? I tried disabling the XP firewall as well as the anti-virus software and that had no effect. > For that, have you conceivably got some kind of virus, trojan, or > spy/adware infestation? It seems impossible, on a Windows box, to rule out that possibility. But the system has always been running updated Symantec anti-virus software and I have not observed other virus-like problems. > Finally, I noticed "SESSIONNAME = `RDP-Tcp#1'" Behavior is the same either on Terminal Server or at the keyboard. -- Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
