On Nov 7 17:50, Michael Schaap wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi, > > > >The latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains > >a couple of patches which are supposed to get Cygwin running better on > >the upcoming Windows Vista. > > > >The important change here is a slightly different memory allocation > >scheme. I'd like to hear if this version still runs fine on all OSes, > >not only on Vista so I'd appreciate some feedback in terms of memory > >allocation problems. Please look for messages as "fixup_mmap_after_fork > >failed", "couldn't allocate heap", stuff like that. > > > >The new memory allocation scheme could result in the necessity to rebase > >again. The usual base address of 0x70000000 for rebase *might* result > >in problems with applications using mmap and runtime loaded DLLs. So, > >if you get such a problem, please call rebase(all) with a base addresses > >of, say, 0x65000000 and try again. > > > > I've been running with this snapshot on my brand new Vista RC2 dual-boot > for a few days, and FWIW, I haven't had any problems with it. (With > 1.5.21, I got the above errors all the time.) > I'm not doing anything special with it, though - I'm just running a zsh > shell in rxvt-unicode, and doing the usual shell stuff. Oh, and I'm > editing with gvim. > (I'm not using the Cygwin/X server, though, but running Cygwin X clients > on an Xming server.) > > After reinstalling I rebase-all'ed using the default parameters, no > problems.
Good to know, thanks. > Thanks for making my Vista install bearable! :-) You're welcome. Enjoy :) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
