Problem: fork: permission denied, after intensive use of scripts

Luc Hermitte hermitte@free.fr
Sun Apr 18 12:45:00 GMT 2004


Hello,

* On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:30:52PM +0200, Michael Gorbunov <michael.gorbunov@uni-graz.at> wrote:
> I have noticed a problem in cygwin when run on Windows 2000
> and Windows XP. After running scripts with a big number of
> command repeated in a long cycle, at some point I cannot
> start anything and receive messages like
> fort: permission denied.
> It looks like PIDs that were used once cannot be reused.
> Does anyone know the solution?

I know a firewall that causes such problems : Agnitum Outpost Firewall.
If you are using this firewall, don't look anywhere else. It's its
fault.

-- 
Luc Hermitte

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