Broken Cygwin Squid 2.4 under XP - binary patch to avoid RLIMIT_NOFILE

Bumped into this problem last night when I was doing a test setup of a little Squid backend on my desktop machine at home. It would typically segfault complaining of too many file handles open. I found a great way of patching the binary in the newsgroups to avoid recompiling it manually with a hardcoded file handle limit. I'm hoping the configure scripts get fixed eventually.

Basically, search for 00 20 00 00 from the bottom of the .EXE, upward, with a hex-editor. You will want to change the 2nd instance of 00 20 00 00 to 00 0C 00 00. Basically, reducing the number from 8192 to 3072.

Originally spotted:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/40135