Why my Emacs in Cygwin running on Windows Seven, always create Crash Dump?

Question

I quite satisfied of how GNU tools run in my Cygwin on Windows Seven. I think it\'s easier just to use GNU/Linux, but my company here has the policy of using Windows Seven for t

Answer 1

Win7 aborts processes that overwrite parts of the stack. If you trust cygwin executables, you can selectively exclude them as follows:

Computer -> Properties
         -> Advanced System Settings
         -> Performance
         -> Settings...
         -> Data Execution Prevention

I excluded the following:

C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-nox.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe
C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe