fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Jason Pyeron]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David Arnstein wrote:

> Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window running 
> bash; the new command window prints a message from bash:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     10 [main] bash 1880 pinfo::wait: Couldn't create pipe tracker for pid 
> 3768,
>
> Win32 error 231
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The bash shell in the command window is unusable. Commands typed into the 
> shell return immediately, but have no effect.
>
> Sometimes, a Cygwin/bash command window will launch properly, but then the 
> above error message appears in the middle of a lengthy command, such as 
> "catman -w".
>
> I found a mailing list article that claimed that this problem could be solved 
> by running "rebaseall." I did kill all Cygwin processes and services, and ran 
> "rebaseall" from an ash shell. This did not solve my problem.
>
> I have attached the output of "cygcheck -s -v -r".
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>


I have 3 machines doing the same thing. 2 use cygwin 1 does not. This 
problem started to manifest itself in the last month or so. They are all 
XP sp2.

I was able to reproduce this on my wifes computer while using netflix, and 
IE shift click opened about 80 IEs, then no processes would launch until I 
closed one first.

I am looking to comup with a better testcase than open lots of stuff until 
it breaks.

google has not helped.

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