git svn fork() problems on cygwin 1.7.20

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Jun 18 21:25:00 GMT 2013


On 6/17/2013 10:45 AM, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:00:47PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
>> Has anyone else seen these when using git svn or other perl programs
>> on cygwin 1.7.20?
> <snip>
>> $ git svn rebase
>> ...
>>        0 [main] perl 4424 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by '_Client.dll' (0x520000) is already occupied
>
> Hmm. Searching for clues I saw this
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12042363/cygwin-git-fork-error-on-pull
>
> and tried out with minimal PATH:
>
> $ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin git svn rebase
> Current branch master is up to date.
>
> Default PATH on the machine includes various tools, compilers, CMake etc.
> Tried to bisect it but it seems that full long PATH has an 80% failure rate
> while mimal PATH=/bin/usr/bin has a 20% failure rate, but I could not identify
> which PATH component could be to blame.

See here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-04/msg00342.html
and Corinna's reply:
"Do you have a big environment?  Thre's a chance that the stack address
moves due to that."

--
Chuck



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