pdflatex does not work on win after todays update but does on linux

[Andreas Hirsch]

Hi,

Zdenek Wagner schrieb am 11.06.2021 um 14:28:
> pá 11. 6. 2021 v 14:27 odesílatel Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> napsal:
>>
>> Zdeněk Wagner wrote:

>> there is an easy way how to corrupt the ls-R files in Linux

>> Is not the database to which Andreas was referring the file "C:\Windows\system32\SRU\SRUDB.dat" rather than the ls-R file, Zdeněk ?
>>
> If the installation is shared, is the database on the local Windows
> computer? If so, then my analysis is wrong.

According to Sieps mail, the pdftex.dll crash is related to a 
Windows-Database named srudb.dat