Access Violation in Posix Subsystem

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This article was previously published under Q182828

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SYMPTOMS

The Posix subsystem (Psxss.exe) sporadically terminates with an access violation (such as, exception 0xc00000005) when using Posix commands like ls or pax.

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RESOLUTION

Upgrade to Windows NT version 4.0 or use native Win32 versions of the unix utilities mentioned. These are available from third parties on the Internet.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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