Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/07/21/03:47:40
On Jul 20 12:28, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> This seems to indicate what is going on (I'd suspected something like
> this) and had noticed that the addition of waitpid (or wait) did solve
> this problem in the test case. Unfortunately, for me, the way I'm
> using fork is to spawn 5 to 10 concurrent rsync's at a time AND retain
> control of the parent so as to recognize when one of the rsyncs has
> hung, and clean up the children when the script finishes. I've never
> liked doing it this way (it seems in-elegant), but not being a
> particular Perl hacker, I've never figured out a better way; and I've
> been using this same script for 7 years in one form or another on Linux,
> Cygwin, and Irix and have just now run into this problem. As it stands
> this is still a script that runs fine on current Linux, but not on
> current Cygwin. Is there a way to purge or bump up the limit on this
> list of active children?
No, but here's the answer to your problem:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00632.html
Corinna
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