Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection (SEHOP) still "incompatible" with Cygwin?

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Mon Sep 16 21:56:04 GMT 2024


On 2024-09-16 03:07, Eckart Hofmann via Cygwin wrote:
> in our Windows 10 environment the Windows Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection (SEHOP) will be activated in the foreseeable future.
> There is a Windows community post from 2010 which mentions possible issues with Cygwin: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/sehop-side-effects/3da5eeca-68ed-47f8-8070-b096d74d60f4
> Unfortunately I couldn't find any newer information about that, even with a search on the cygwin mailing list archives and the Cygwin FAQ.
> Could you please tell, whether that possible issue still exists?

The links say that has been enabled by default in Windows Server since 2008, and 
Cygwin has been running in Servers since then, so there should be no issues, 
unless that information is inaccurate.

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