Re: FAST_CWD pointer

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko at NexGo dot DE>]

Hugo Leisink <hugo <at> leisink.net> writes:
> When running the Hiawatha webserver on a Windows 10 system, I get the 
> following error:
> 
> 0 [main] wigwam 812 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD 
> pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list 
> cygwin <at> cygwin.com
> 0 [main] hiawatha 6172 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD 
> pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list 
> cygwin <at> cygwin.com
> 
> I have no idea what this means or how to solve it. It ran fine on Windows 
> XP and Windows 7. Windows 10 also causes an issue with cygrunsrv.exe. My 
> guess is that it also as something to do with this issue.

If you'd search for that error message, you'd quickly find that your Cygwin
DLL needs updating to work on later Windows versions.  That update happened
_years_ ago.

> Any advice is more than welcome. To test for yourself, visit 
> https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/download, download the Windows package, 
> unzip to a suitable location and run Hiawatha.bat.

Binary distribution of the Cygwin DLL without the sources to build that
exact version is a license violation and hence a no-no.  Plus, as you just
found out, it doesn't work the way you think it works anyway.


Regards,
Achim.


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