Windows update vs. cygrunsrv

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Mike Stockman wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> I don't know it this was unique to my machine, but am
>> reporting it in case anyone else runs into the same
>> issue.  When running Microsoft update today, on Win2k,
>> the patch for Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows
>> 2000 (KB904706) hung during installation, with an
>> instance of cygrunsrv hogging 100% CPU, until I had
>> stopped every last one of my cygrunsrv processes.  I
>> don't know what the Microsoft update was trying to do
>> to running services during the update, but it obviously
>> didn't interact very well with cygrunsrv.

I saw similar problems when running process explorer, IIRC the
affected service was cygserver, though I'm not sure.  This leads
to my thought that the tool to discover malicious software may
be the culprit since it scans all running processes, may be the
DirectX setup performs similar scans?


Gerrit

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