X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:07:24 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: perl errors after a while on windows 7 / 2k8 r2
Message-ID:	<20091119170724.GD8185@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<ECFF69E32D164AF69B35F6496D8EC473 AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk>
MIME-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<ECFF69E32D164AF69B35F6496D8EC473@multiplay.co.uk>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:28:27PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
>After a while of running one of our perl scripts errors with
>the following on windows 7 / 2k8 r2
>
>3 [sig] perl 8296 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't create signal pipe, Win32 error 1
>
>This is with cygwin:-
>CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 blade24 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin
>
>Anyone seen this issue before, or have any clue on how to
>debug it?

Sounds like BLODA.

http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA

There's no reason that a CreatePipe() should fail with a "Invalid Function" error.

cgf

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -