Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 22 00:31:00 GMT 2005


On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:01:17PM -0500, David Arnstein wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:17:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> I've been having problems with "fork: resource unavailable" on my machine
>> with the 10/03 snapshot.  The problem is only reproducible after Cygwin
>> has been running for a while, under a heavy load.  I'll try to see if it
>> appears under the 12/20 snapshot, but there's no guarantee I'll be able to
>> reproduce it in time for the release.  I know this isn't much of a bug
>> report, but this is just a heads-up.
>
>I have been plagued by this problem for monthes now. I don't have a
>solution, but here is a bash shell script that will reproduce the
>problem. It is checking every file in its argument list. It is most
>likely to cause the problem when presented with a long argument list.
>I like to exercise it by launching it from C:\Windows as
>	undupe.sh *

Wow.  Two replies to my request for testing the current snapshot.  The
first talks about a two-month old snapshot and the second doesn't
provide any details about whether this is a problem with the current
snapshot or not.

Not what I'd call an auspicious start.

cgf

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