Bug in Cygwin-1.1.4 - cannot fork: No more processes
Bernard Dautrevaux
Dautrevaux@microprocess.com
Fri Oct 6 01:52:00 GMT 2000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy T. Moore Jr. [ mailto:gmoore@openmarket.com ]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:37 AM
> To: Dautrevaux@microprocess.com
> Subject: Bug in Cygwin-1.1.4 - cannot fork: No more processes
>
>
> Bernard,
>
> Did you ever get any type of solution/workaround for this problem?
No, short of closing th eCygwin bash window :-(
>
> I get similar errors of
>
> "make[5]: execvp: c:/Cygwin/bin/bash.exe: No more processes"
>
> and am trying to narrow down a small test case so that the
> Cygwin group can assist.
Note that once I've got this error on B20.1 I usually can no more run *any*
command in the bash window; on cygwin-1.1.4 it seems a bit better as I can
run commands, but make runs will crash quite soon :-(
>
> It appears that when I go 6 shell levels deep that the problem
> occurs but I am unable to replicate, thus far in a small test case...
May be due effectively to deep sh (ash in fact) nesting; looks like the
shared data section managed by cygwin1.dll gets corrupted one way or
another, perhaps when accessed in parallel by different threads/processes
(see below).
Note that the problem (in B20.1, I've never tried that in 1.1.4) seems a lot
more frequent if you open several bash windows to run jobs in parallel, to
the point I've had to advise users of my tools on NT *not* to open more than
one bash window as this eases things a lot: less crashes :-)
I'll try to set up again a cygwin-1.1.4 environment (My users are still
under B20.1 and th eversion of tools they use are not yet compatible with
1.1.4 -- they don't grok the /cygdrive/ prefix--, so I have to stay with
this one for a while) to test this on 1.1.4 and I'll keep you informed.
>
> Guy Moore
> OpenMarket
HTH,
Bernard
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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
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92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
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e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com
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