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 X-Originating-IP: [63.203.232.106] Reply-To: aek@pumpkininc.com From: "Andrew Kalman" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix? Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 20:24:24 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Sep 2001 03:24:24.0930 (UTC) FILETIME=[ECC4CC20:01C138DE] I'm a Cygwin newbie who installed it on my Win98 machine in order to implement a recursive Makefile that includes this line, among others: # $(1) is target, $(2) is regexp to retrieve index chars INDEX=$(shell expr '$(1)' : '$(2)') (Couldn't do this in the MS-DOS "Window" environment, etc.). Anyway, now when I run make and generate a large number (400+) of libraries in a single pass, I often get the "vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" error message. This is in Win98, 256MB, with nothing else running, etc. The _only_ way to fix this is to reboot. I searched the archives, and found many mentions of this problem, but no fixes. Am I simply out of luck? Are there plans to fix this? I can't upgrade to Win2000 because of a lack of drivers for h/w on this machine. Regards, and I think Cygwin is a great tool. I just wish it didn't have this problem ... P.S. I've now also tried the same build on a Win2000 SP2 machine, and am having similar problems (!). -------------------------- Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D. aek@pumpkininc.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- 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/