PostgreSQL 7.1 Beta 3 does not run under Cygwin 1.1.8

Jason Tishler Jason.Tishler@dothill.com
Sun Feb 4 02:25:00 GMT 2001


Corinna,

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:46:47PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:29:37AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:45:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > - Improve anonymous mmap.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I think that the above change is preventing PostgreSQL
> > from running under Cygwin 1.1.8.  When I start postmaster, I get the
> > following error:
> > 
> >       0 [main] postmaster 1580 fixup_mmaps_after_fork: base address fails to match requested address 0x7030000
> > C:\cygwin\usr\local\pgsql\bin\postgres.exe: *** recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed
> > Startup failed - abort
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Could you send me a simple test case?

Please see attached for two test cases, courtesy of Yutaka tanida, that
reproduce this problem without PostgreSQL involved.  Actually,
mmaptest2.c further isolates the problem down to mmap()/fork() by
removing cygipc from the equation.

Thanks,
Jason

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