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Re: Windows 10 updates causes fork retry no child processes
- From: Evgeny Grin <k2k at yandex dot ru>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 20:31:15 +0300
- Subject: Re: Windows 10 updates causes fork retry no child processes
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On 02.11.2016 18:47, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Is there some automated way I can stop Windows 10 updates from continuously causing these fork retry no child process
> issues after every damn update?
> We use an application based on Cygwin (2.6.0) on our clients that gets wrecked everytime a Windows 10 update occurs.
> The users have no idea about Cygwin because it's hidden from them so I cannot ask them to do anything with regard to Cygwin.
> .
> Any ideas for an automated way to stop these errors would be appreciated.
Seems that you have two options:
* Ask Microsoft to stop breaking Windows in Preview builds (according to
my personal research - Windows unloads wrong .DLL instead of requested .DLL)
* Ask your clients not to use Insider Preview because of "beta nature"
of those builds.
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Best Wishes,
Evgeny Grin
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