
As many of you may remember
I did a review of Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 (SFU) a few months ago. I remember being frustrated with that release because it seemed to me that all Microsoft did was throw something together just to be able to say "Hey look, we have this". I thought, since Microsoft released version 3.5, I would revisit and see what changes were done with it. I downloaded the beta version a while back and from the beta I was very impressed with the improvements that Microsoft made. Being a beta version it was buggy and some things just didnt quite work. I finally got the final version of the OpenBSD-based
SFU 3.5 and this release makes dynamic leaps and bounds over previous releases of this software package. I am glad to see a lot more work was put into this release.
I have had lots of processes crash (notably, the X server and links), and my Cygwin shells never seem to be affected. They keep right on trucking. If I look at process explorer, or run top, all of the cygwin processes are separate. They share a common runtime DLL, but I have never experienced this common-crash syndrome described earlier.