Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <009601c2c7ba$58c0ccb0$2f36ba8c@sfdev3> Reply-To: "Norman Vine" From: "Norman Vine" To: References: <006701c2c7b6$77f0cbc0$91f70bc1@fizzgig> <02e201c2c7b7$d2f2df30$a2e786d9@webdev> <20030129170252.GC11670@redhat.com> Subject: Re: ViewCVS problems Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:17:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Virus-Scanned: Cape.Com VirusScan, no known virus found Christopher Faylor writes: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:59:43PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> File "/usr/local/viewcvs-0.9.2/lib/popen.py", line 33, in popen > >> pid = os.fork() > >> OSError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable > >> -- > >> > >> Since it's thrown on os.fork(), I suspect cygwin is the culprit, but > >> that's just my gut feeling. > > > >There have been some changes in the fork-semantics (?) > > From the Cygwin changelog, the only changes I see which mention "fork" are > in mmap and pthread. It doesn't seem likely that either would be responsible > for this problem. My guess is that a DLL 'rebasing' will solve this see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-01/msg00003.html HTH Norman -- 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/