Zsh observations

[Andrej Borsenkow]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:08 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Zsh observations
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:59:10AM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> >>
> >> 1. zsh doesn't like it if ...\cygwin\bin is not in the Windows
> >> path.  If I
> >> start up zsh without this, it works as long as the current directory is
> >> /usr/bin.  If I then do
> >> 	PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
> >> 	export PATH
> >> 	cd $HOME
> >> (either on the command line, or in /etc/zprofile), any
> external command I
> >> run gives:
> >> 	      0 [main] zsh 2432 sync_with_child: child 2356(0x230)
> >> died before
> >> initialization with status code 0x80
> >> 	   1288 [main] zsh 2432 sync_with_child: *** child state
> >> waiting for longjmp
> >> /home/mscha/.zshrc:150: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
> >>
> >
> >Well ... it does work if you start cmd.exe (I am on NT), and
> then run zsh as
> >e.g. \cygwin\bin\zsh. It does not work if you define shortcut
> and start zsh
> >via shortcut. Both with current snapshot.
> >
> >I am pretty sure it worked at some point (because I did have shortcut to
> >zsh). I cannot recall any changes in zsh that could result in
> this problem,
> >but who knows.
>
> I can't get it to fail in this fashion.  I've taken x:\cygwin\bin
> from my path.
> It was being added in my zshenv file anyway.  It works just fine.

You have dynamic build (with libzsh)?

-andrej


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