On Thu Apr 10 18:50:59 GMT 2025, ASSI <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote: > It seems that you are using the test version of Emacs that uses native > compilation. If so, then please actually read the announcement: > https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin-announce/2e4a21c3-3e94-4771-acf2-7e56e5fcecf4@cornell.edu/ > If that is not the case, then you should probably look into excluding > the Cygwin installation from whatever "threat protection" you have > foisted on to you, expecially any "realtime" one. Today, I switched from emacs 30.1-2 (TEST) to emacs 30.1-1 and the fork problem went away. I'll stick with this version. Thanks - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us