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Date:	Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:13:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject:	Re: fork_copy error
To:	Larry Rau <larry AT savaJe DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Larry Rau <larry AT savaJe DOT com> wrote:
> On win98 se2 with cygwin version:
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ uname -a
> CYGWIN_98-4.10 POWERPLAY 1.1.0(0.18/3/2) 2000-03-20 00:14:57 i586 unknown
> 
> I get the following error during a large make (around 5k files
> don't know where it fails.. bunch of javac launches)
> 
> 0 [main] MAKE 1003 fork_copy: user/cygwin data pass 2 failed, 0x4580000..0
> x47E5000, done 0, Win32 error 8
> make: vfork: No more processes
> 
> Once this occurs if I re-run the make it will process some more
> files and then give the same error. Eventually make will just fail
> to run anymore compiles (in this case always javac).  The only way
> to cure it is to reboot win98.  Exiting all bash shell's is not 
> enough.  The rest of win98 appears to function ok (well normal) as
> far as I can tell.
> 
> Does anyone else experience this?  On smaller makes running gcc I
> have not had a problem.  
> 

It's happened in the past.  Have you tried the using the -j switch for make to
give it the maximum number of jobs it can start?  Don't know if it will help.


> Is Win2k much more stable for using cygwin?  I've been thinking of
> upgrading as I think my main tools will run on win2k: gcc,cygwin,wincvs.
> 

I'm using WinNT and Win2k is it's replacement.  It's been reported stable for
cygwin on this list.


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