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: <02b301c2f2e6$fc80e220$ab474e51@ellixia> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Mike W." References: <20030325043654.20391.qmail@web10009.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: I can jam cygwin in 2 minutes - can you?- "Cannot fork: Permission denied" jam Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:55:38 -0000 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 V5.50.4910.0300 > This relates to a bug in Win NT 2000 sp3 or cygwin- > hard to say which. I can only exercise the bug in > cygwin, but I would like to exercise it from > command.exe- see below. Another user jammed cygwin in > 183 iterations of the loop, after two days without a > reboot. I am not alone. Mike, I experienced this when running under an untouched Windows 2000 box, ie. SP0... Since upgrading to SP3 the problem went away (for me). Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/