Problem forking from Zsh under 1.7 when installed under UNC path

[Nikolai Weibull]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  2 15:24, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

>> I have come across a problem that occurs when Zsh (both 4.3.11 and
>> 4.3.12) tries to fork when Cygwin (1.7) has been installed under a UNC
>> path.  The problem occurs because Zsh has support for dynamically
>> loaded modules.  When Zsh forks to run a process (like “ls”), Cygwin
>> tries to map these modules (DLLs) into the new process, but somewhere
>> along the line gets confused as to what passed was used to load the
>> module:
>>
>>       2 [main] zsh 8220 child_info_fork::abort: unable to map UNC\Filer\Programs
>> \Cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.11\zsh\parameter.dll, Win32 error 126
>> compaudit:91: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
>>       2 [main] zsh 4836 child_info_fork::abort: unable to map UNC\Filer\Programs
>> \Cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.11\zsh\zle.dll, Win32 error 126
>> compinit:526: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable

> Thanks for the report.  That's certainly a bug in Cygwin.  I applied
> a patch which is supposed to fix this issue.  Please test the next
> developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Seems to work fine.

Thank you!

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