X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:30:56 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19 Message-ID: <20051222003056.GB24185@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20051221162249.GA9890@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20051221200117.GA5691@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051221200117.GA5691@panix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:01:17PM -0500, David Arnstein wrote: >On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:17:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> I've been having problems with "fork: resource unavailable" on my machine >> with the 10/03 snapshot. The problem is only reproducible after Cygwin >> has been running for a while, under a heavy load. I'll try to see if it >> appears under the 12/20 snapshot, but there's no guarantee I'll be able to >> reproduce it in time for the release. I know this isn't much of a bug >> report, but this is just a heads-up. > >I have been plagued by this problem for monthes now. I don't have a >solution, but here is a bash shell script that will reproduce the >problem. It is checking every file in its argument list. It is most >likely to cause the problem when presented with a long argument list. >I like to exercise it by launching it from C:\Windows as > undupe.sh * Wow. Two replies to my request for testing the current snapshot. The first talks about a two-month old snapshot and the second doesn't provide any details about whether this is a problem with the current snapshot or not. Not what I'd call an auspicious start. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/