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Re: Please try latest snapshot (was Re: 1.7.13/1.7.14: Issue with command prompt not returning when forking process)
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:50:21PM +0200, Rob Burgers wrote:
>Hi Christopher,
>
>I managed to create a simple replicator for the latest issue with the 2012-05-07 snapshot.
>
>The script below crashes within seconds with the 'Resource temporarily unavailable' message.
>
>====================
>f.sh:
>--------------------
>#!/bin/bash
>
>cmd /C start notepad
>
>while ( true ); do
> X=hello
>done
>====================
>$ ./f.sh
> 7 [main] bash 4288 fork: child -1 - forked process died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741819, errno 11
>./f.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>./f.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>--------------------
Thanks for the test case. This was due to Cygwin's not dealing well with
Windows reuse of pids.
It should be fixed in today's snapshot when it shows up at:
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
cgf
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