Cygwin 1.7 & Windows Batch File & mount temp in windows temp before starting...

Václav Haisman v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz
Sat Aug 15 10:58:00 GMT 2009


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Dave Korn wrote, On 14.8.2009 13:45:
> Purrer Wolfgang wrote:
>> I want to provide  X – Services on a Windows Terminal Server.
>>
>> Cygwin is on a file share
> 
>   I've often wondered.  Does anyone know what happens when you have a bunch of
> executables (dlls and exes) mapped as image views into a running process and
> the server suddenly goes away just as windows wants to page in a chunk of
> .text section?  Is it clever enough to back the whole image by a page file at
> startup when it's coming from a network redirector?
Since the PE header has a flag that let's you specify that you want to copy
network stored .exe/.dll into swap before executing, I would say you will get
GPF if the flag is not there and the server disappears and Windows try to
page in a bit.

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VH

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