X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:44:55 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19 In-Reply-To: <20051222003056.GB24185@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20051221162249.GA9890@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20051221200117.GA5691@panix.com> <20051222003056.GB24185@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 21 Dec 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. Okay, I was wrong. I did reproduce the problem with essentially the same strace under the 12/20 snapshot (sorry, still not the latest, but I'm building a debug version of cygwin1.dll from cvs HEAD now). More details when I have them. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/