Windows XP problems?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 17:10:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:05:07PM -0400, Joseph S. Testa wrote:
>
>Hi --
>
>	I searched the archives using these keywords:  xp, windows xp.  I
>searched Google using these keywords:  cygwin, windows, xp.  I didn't find
>the answer to my question, so I'm posting here.
>
>-----
>
>	A user of Shaolin Secure FTP ( http://www.shaolinsecureftp.com/ ),
>mailed me with this problem:
>
>> ssh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x2420000) in
>> child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
>> Connection closed
>
>	He is using Windows XP.  Has anyone ever experienced this?  If XP
>isn't doing this, does anyone know what is?
>
>
>	Thanks in advance for any help.

Corinna has reported that cygwin doesn't work on XP, currently so I
guess you're pretty much out of luck until this is rectified.  We'll
probably get around to this when XP shows up commercially.

cgf

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