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Re: CVS setup.exe crashes on Windows 2003 Server x64
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:09:55 -0800
- Subject: Re: CVS setup.exe crashes on Windows 2003 Server x64
- References: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF302A6A2FB@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
"Thrall, Bryan" wrote:
> Well, I believe Win2k3 Server x64 has a 32-bit compatibility mode that
> it is using to run setup.exe. Self-modifying code would explain why DEP
> would kill the program, but does that explain why CVS setup.exe is
> getting killed but 2.510.2.2 isn't? It looks like autoload.c hasn't been
> changed since 2004...
I think the autoload.c thing is a red herring, since:
A) As you state it has been in setup.exe for years,
and
B) this same autoload technique is used by the Cygwin DLL itself as
well.
Brian