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Message-ID: <20141003011047.GB4505@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 05:10:47 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: John the Ripper v1.8.0.2-bleeding-jumbo-2014-09-28 for windows is available on the custom-builds wiki page

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 07:50:19PM -0400, Rich Rumble wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:46 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm afraid this version (just assuming from Sep 28 in the filename) likely
> > have an immature version of Sayantan's new, faster, mask mode. It entered
> > the scene in Sep 24 and still isn't 100% stable as of now (we have a resume
> > problem with node/fork and still regression testing other things) so
> > there's no point in updating it yet though. We should have a good version
> > within a day or two. Sorry 'bout that!
> 
> In addition, Fork doesn't work well with Cygwin, I'm not sure if it should
> have a disable option or if it does. Node I've not tried enough, but I've
> posted a few times about Fork issues. Truth be told, I have not tried fork
> on 64-bit cygwin however.

--fork support is excluded from Windows builds by default:

#if defined(__DJGPP__) || defined(__CYGWIN32__) || defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__MINGW32__)
#define OS_FORK				0
#else
#define OS_FORK				1
#endif

Alexander

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