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: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:56:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix? Message-ID: <20010910115636.A2488@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010909195919.E11565@redhat.com> <20010910104428.A2256@volta.certicom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010910104428.A2256@volta.certicom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:44:28AM -0400, Ashok Vadekar wrote: >I may have run into a related problem under Win2K. I tried to make >calc OOTB and got as far as the help directory before it started spawning >as many sub-shells as it could, until the machine more or less stopped. >It seemed to be trying to resize the swap file to make more room, but >there should have been no need for the scores of sh.exe's showing up in the >task manager list. This effect always seemed to occur at the same point in >the make, so it doesn't appear to be an accumulated memory loss fault, from >these symptom, but it could very well be related for fork(). > >I ended up avoiding the problem by making the help sub tree under solaris, >and then finishing the x86 build under cygwin. It didn't produce a completely >correct binary, but it sort of works. Oddly enough, I just downloaded the calc, extracted the file, and typed "make". It built the entire package without warning. cgf -- 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/