cygwin stopped working

[Marco Atzeri]

No TOP post please

On 14/02/2018 02:41, Bryan Zimmer wrote:
> I have been following this thread closely as I have a similar problem. It
> only differs in that mintty, which I use to start bash, fails completely.
> It tells me that it cannot fork, that the problem could be that I have more
> than 1 cygwin1.dll, that I should run rebaseall or rebase --help.
> Unfortunately all cygwin processes have the same problem. Even a fresh,
> clean re-installation of all of cygwin left me with the same problem.
> 

Have you checked, what Andreas did ?

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:58 PM, Andreas Schiffler 
>> wrote:
> 
>> Found the workaround (read: not really a solution as it leaves the system
>> vulnerable, but it unblocks cygwin)
>> - Go to Windows Defender Security Center - Exploit protection settings
>> - Disable System Settings - Force randomization for images (Mandatory
>> ASLR) and Randomize memory allocations (Bottom-up ASLR) from "On by
>> default" to "Off by default"

Windows Defender is a know problem for fork

https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda

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