From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: vfork: permission denied
22 Jan 1997 18:12:27 -0800 :
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Original-To:	nrd AT xox DOT com (Neal R. Dalton)
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In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970113204421.18284C-100000@ibis.xox.com> from "Neal R. Dalton" at Jan 13, 97 09:11:56 pm
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Neal R. Dalton wrote:
> 
> I installed 17.1, setup my environment variable, make a hello world program.
> 
> When I run make or gcc I get:
> 
>   MAKE.EXE: vfork: Permission denied

This usually happens when bash wants to fork off a copy of itself
to execute something and then fails to find itself.  Do you have a
/bin/sh?  Is bash in your path?

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Geoffrey Noer
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