Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-07-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 13:10, Benjamin Cao wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > I have tried the latest snapshot and have confirmed that with > AllocationPreference enabled, I can start Cygwin without any crashes. Thanks for testing. Unfortunately another bug showed up, so I push the offical release into next week. Th

RE: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-07-29 Thread Benjamin Cao
: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 7:49 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address On Jul 28 17:26, Benjamin Cao wrote: > Corinna, > > When I start Cygwin, with the AllocationPreference registry enable for > VirtualAlloc, the shell immediate close

Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-07-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 17:26, Benjamin Cao wrote: > Corinna, > > When I start Cygwin, with the AllocationPreference registry enable for > VirtualAlloc, the shell immediate closes. I get the below error. > > 2 [main] sh 5240 c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - internal > error reading the windows environme

RE: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-07-28 Thread Benjamin Cao
f Corinna Vinschen Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 4:15 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address On Jul 27 18:41, Benjamin Cao wrote: > Hi, > > We are revisiting our issue with running Cygwin by enabling the > AllocationPreference registry

Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 18:41, Benjamin Cao wrote: > Hi, > > We are revisiting our issue with running Cygwin by enabling the > AllocationPreference registry to run in high address. We’re hoping > some clarification from our colleague could help shed some light on > our situation. > > “A major part of the work

RE: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-07-27 Thread Benjamin Cao
:34 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address Hi Benjamin, On Feb 24 19:58, Benjamin Cao wrote: > Hi, > > I had to enable high address for some machines for testing. I set the > AllocationPreference registry key to be 0X10. Cygw

Re: Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Benjamin, On Feb 24 19:58, Benjamin Cao wrote: > Hi, > > I had to enable high address for some machines for testing. I set the > AllocationPreference registry key to be 0X10. Cygwin doesn't support this AllocationPreference registry setting. Cygwin and thus Cygwin applications(*) are alr

Cygwin Shell Fails to Start when Enabling High Address

2015-02-24 Thread Benjamin Cao
Hi, I had to enable high address for some machines for testing. I set the AllocationPreference registry key to be 0X10. To start by Cygwin shell, I have a script that does this: @echo off set CYGWIN="nodosfilewarning" sh --login The error I will get when trying to start the shell is this: