Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:01:18 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin memory problems on Windows XP Message-ID: <20010905170118.L30380@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from deverl@in-system.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:55:01AM -0600 On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:55:01AM -0600, 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? http://cygwin.com Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/