proc_retry question

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  8 16:03, xmoon 2000 wrote:
> On 8 December 2014 at 15:50, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote:
> > On Dec  8 14:48, xmoon 2000 wrote:
> >> On 8 December 2014 at 14:40, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote:
> >> > On Dec  8 12:40, xmoon 2000 wrote:
> >> >> I have set proc_retry = 10.
> >> >>
> >> >> I still get the following error message but showing rety 10:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>       0 [main] sh 35392 fork: child -1 - forked process 35736 died
> >> >> unexpectedly, retry 10, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> >> >> /q/onlyPastEnd.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >> >>
> >> >> Does this mean it got an error and cygwin will now retry 10 times?
> >> >>
> >> >> OR does it mean it retry-ed 10 and failed?
> >> >
> >> > It tried 10 times and failed.
> >>
> >> Are you certain about that?
> >
> > No.  Sorry, it's the other way around.  If retry is 10, no retry
> > occured.  AFAICS that's because you get an C000005 status code, which is
> > STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION.  In case of this error code, Cygwin does
> > explicitely not retry.
> 
> Do this suggest that I need to do the rebaseall - as documented in:
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-fork-failures

You can try, but this looks a bit different.  A SEGV at fork time could
be a bug in Cygwin or a result of having another Cygwin DLL in the path
for some reason.


Corinna

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