Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/11/22/22:45:21
svoboda AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu wrote:
> On Saturday 19 November 2005 01:07 am, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
>>David Svoboda wrote:
>>
>>>I have built a C++ server program called 'analyzer'. But when I try to
>>>run it, it fails upon trying to execute a 'fork' command. Why?
<snip>
>>
>>If running 'rebaseall' doesn't help (see the README) and 'analyzer' doesn't
>>use any DLLs that were built as part of that package (in which case you
>>need to tell 'rebaseall' about them), then try:
>>
>><http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html>
>
>
> Thanks for the response. The 'analyzer' program is statically linked; it
> involves no DLLs. Rebaseall did nothing. And increasing the size of the heaps
> did nothing (I tried 2x, 4x, 8x and 16x). My machine is totally wedged
> now...even safe mode doesn't work.
>
> I can only say that this fork problem happens on several other Windows
> machines at our university, but it does not seem to happen to machines not at
> the university. Furthermore this fork problem now affects previous versions
> of my 'analyzer' software...last week's version worked then, but does not
> now. It's as if Satan put a curse on all the PCs only at this university.
>
> Any other suggestions?
Trying a snapshot it a good subsequent step. If you're going to be building
things against Cygwin, you'll want to pull the cygwin-inst. Otherwise,
cygwin1-*.dll is enough and is probably plenty for starters.
<http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>
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