X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: simple test triggers fork errs for me in 5/27 snapshot Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 17:01:10 +0100 Message-ID: <024201c68339$1a17f4f0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20060529153818.GB12157@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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 29 May 2006 16:38, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:03:43PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> Anyone got any good ideas? > > I've rescanned this thread to reacquaint myself with why I was > semi-ignoring it and I've found that the data points are 1) it fails > with 4/27 and one subsequent snapshots 2) it works with the 4/3 > snapshot 3) it fails with the 3/9 snapshot. > > I was hoping that somebody besides me would offer the obvious > observation that if this truly stopped working at some point, then > knowing when it stopped working with less granularity than a 24 day > period would be the first step towards fixing the problem. > > So, that's my good idea. > > cgf 2006-05-16: present 2006-04-24: present 2006-04-17: present. 2006-04-12: present. 2006-04-03: not present. Also failure mode appears to involve an intermediate shell with a command line 31767 chars long.... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/