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Re: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable


On 15/06/2011 2:14 PM, Kevin Layer wrote:
When running make, which spawns shell scripts from time to time, I see
this:
   ../../version.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

The list archives are full of discussions about this (did you search them?). The short version is that Windows vista/7 makes it "difficult" for cygwin to fork() processes reliably.

If I run again, it works fine.
You're in fairly good shape, then. Be glad.

Ryan


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