On 31 January 2008 14:02, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ashutosh Singh wrote: >> Hi, >> I downloaded the lates cygwin and I still see problems with >> createProcess. fork() fails in many cases. >> Editing files is also an issue. Has the issue been punted, should I >> forget about making cygwin work >> reliably on windows. I need XWindows badly and would have to move back >> to Exceed. Other utilities >> work fine. I have done the rebase etc, as mentioned in the forums. >> regards, Ashutosh > > I have been running cygwin on Vista 64bit with no issues, and have not > had to do anything other than the regular installation. I have not > had to rebase or anything. The only config change I have made is to > disable UAC in Vista, so maybe that would help (though not the best > thing).
Might be worth checking for interference from other installed applications then: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/
