Vista x64 STARTUPINFO Issue

[Corinna Vinschen]

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

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