On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 03:32:55AM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:12:52AM +0100, Kaveh Goudarzi wrote: >>I'm working on an app which attempts to get the environment of running >>cygwin apps. It does this by running the GetEnvironmentStrings() win32 >>api call in the context of the running cygwin app (code injection). > >That is somewhat risky, as recent threads have discussed how windows >update does a code injection that interferes with cygwin and deadlocks >the processor into 100% utilization.
Actually, it is unlikely that this is as simple as "code injection causes problems". I was playing with this technique a while ago with cygwin programs and I never saw the rumored 100% CPU utilization. cgf -- 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/
