As Eric Weddington wrote: > > > The issues with vista that I am aware of have to do with > > > spawning/execing a new process.
> > That probably means avarice is at risk. > I'm not that familiar with avarice internals. Does avarice spawn > avr-gdb then? No, but it forks itself to create that "USB daemon". This is a simple way (well, on Unix :) to implement the multithreading that is essentially required to handle the USB communication on one side, and run the normal AVaRICE application on the other side. So it depends on Cygwin's emulation of fork(). But hey, that's certainly the wrong list now. ;-) > > Of course, if Windows Vista finally saw the light, and provided a > > driver to access the parallel port concurrently with the print > > spooler for non-printing jobs, *that* would be great > I'd like to dream that... ;-) Ah, you're right. I forgot for a moment that this would not sell a single Holywood video. (This smiley has been left out intentionally.) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
