Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <012101c1b3e7$6be65900$9d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "morad m" , References: Subject: Re: problems with bash Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:04:01 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 This is a general shell script debugging problem, probably not Cygwin specific. I'm a bit nervous about $a and $b not being quoted. If either is absent or empty, the effects could be unexpected. Try to eliminate some of the 2000 lines that aren't causing the problem. "set -x -v" before the if might help you to see where the error is actually occurring. If the script has more than a couple dozen lines, you should probably write the script in Perl or Python. Just catching a couple problems like this before they blow up will repay you the time it takes to learn either language. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. ----- Original Message ----- From: "morad m" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 08:38 Subject: problems with bash > I have noticed one problem when using bash: > > In my script : > > if [ $a = $b ]; then > (about 2000 lines of shell stuff here) > fi > > Then bash fails with the following error: > fork_helper: child died before initialization with win32 error 128 > fork: No more processes -- 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/