On Dec 4 13:17, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > McArdle, Christian wrote: > >As I understand it, cygwin doesn't yet work on Vista x64. Does anyone know > >if a fix is under development? > > > >>From what I have read, it is related to Windows no longer using the > >>STARTUPINFO reserved parameters to pass information onto the new process. > >>I have no idea exactly how cygwin does this, but I've done similar things > >>in a more portable fashion using named pipes (named after a newly created > >>GUID), so whether that would be a solution or not, I don't know... > > From the above, it's seems like you've read this thread but if not, this is > the current state of affairs: > > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00580.html> > > If you have some ideas that you'd like to propose, feel free. :-)
Looks like I have solved this issue today, but I'm still testing. Stay tuned. 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/
