Hi Corinna, > Would you mind to give the latest developer snapshot from > http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try? It tries very carefully to > eliminate concurrency problems in the initialization phase. I see. With the same scenario as in my original posting I trigger an assertion added by Christopher the other day: assertion "*native_root != '0円'" failed: file "/netrel/src/cygwin-snapshot-20100315-1/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc", line 341, function: void mount_info::create_root_entry(WCHAR*) Regards, Oliver -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple