Re: "no buffer space available" on Win2K [cgf, please comment]

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 01:24:00AM -0400, Karl Waclawek wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 11:36 PM
>
>>>There is also a thread in google groups:
>>
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=7be06644.0204221456.10fd2bc6%40posting.google.com
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>>Which shows that this isn't a cygwin-specific problem.
>
>I never said that,

And I never said you said that.

>However, I have to say this: There are millions of of 2000 systems out
>there.  The likelyhood of MS fixing the problem and a major portion of
>these systems getting patched is close to zero.

Which doesn't really mean anything if the problem isn't fixable without
a fix to the OS except that people with this problem are SOL.

>So here is the real-life lesson about MS:
>You have a problem with a buggy MS product - you find a workaround.

Hopefully you aren't preaching to me.  I doubt if there are many people
around who've spent as much time working around Microsoft problems as I
have.  It's been mentioned that this particular problem was the subject
of some discussion in cygwin land already and we've tried various
things to fix it.

cgf