Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

Larry Hall lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 7 18:09:00 GMT 2005


At 01:10 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote:
>In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut I reported
>earlier, I thought I'd use a Perl script. Unfortunately the
>Win32::Shortcut package seems to cause problems with process forking
>(unlike the readshortcut error, this one isn't specific to the latest
>cygwin DLL). I get an error
>
>C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (3088): *** unable to remap
>C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\vendor_perl\5.8\cygwin\auto\Win32\Shortcut\Shortcut.
>dll to same address as parent(0xBF0000) != 0x1110000
>     13 [main] perl 3716 fork_parent: child 3088 died waiting for dll
>loading 


Sounds like a classic rebasing issue to me.  Have you tried running 
'rebaseall'?




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