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Date:	Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:03:01 -0400
To:	"DeVerl Stokes" <deverl AT in-system DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin memory problems on Windows XP
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At 10:55 AM 9/5/2001, DeVerl Stokes wrote:
>Some of the more recently updated Cygwin programs are failing
>on Windows XP (Build 2526) with memory errors.  The most recent
>version of lynx was the first occurrence of this and the only
>occurrence until I updated bash to 2.05-7.  Then many others
>started to exhibit this failure.  The id program, for instance
>generates the following output:
>
>----------------
>C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's
>heap (0x9B0000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
>----------------
>NOTE: Win32 error 487 = Attempt to access invalid address.
>
>
>This is the same error message that lynx generated.
>
>These same programs appear to work fine on Win9x, WinNT 4.0,
>and Win2K.
>
>Has anyone else seen these problems?



Check the email archives and see all the discussion on XP issues.



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