On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:34:38PM -0400, Jonathan Pearson wrote: >Hi, > >The development group that I work in has been experiencing random >failures when starting programs from Cygwin. The problem only occurs >when McAfee's (version 8.7i) on-access scanner McShield is running. We >do not have official control over this, so disabling it is not an >option.
Sorry but that puts McAfee into the http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA category. Attempting to work around every single piece of software which prevents Cygwin from behaving normally would conceivably be a large undertaking and it is not something that is likely to be attempted. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple