Re: [Mingw-msys] touch.exe is not working and is causing XP to crash

[Joel C. S. <joe...@gm...>]

On 5/21/07, Joe Flowers <fl...@so...> wrote:
> Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> > What invocation is causing the OS to crash?  Are you "touch"ing system
> > files, trying to create a file in your home directory, or what?
>
> Just touching any file, any text file for example.
>
> It works correctly on my home computer but bombs on my work computer.
>
> MS "error signature":
> AppName: touch.exe            AppVer: 0.0.0.0    ModName: ntdll.dll
> ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180         Offset: 00001230
>
> I'm trying to find out what the difference is but have failed to find it
> yet.
> The touch.exe and msys-1.0.dll files are exactly the same (same MD5 and
> SHA-1 sigs).

Any more details about the symptoms of the system crash?

--Joel

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