Message-ID: <1414A4852E1142F2AFD9E1C45E75858D@multiplay.co.uk>
From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
References: <ECFF69E32D164AF69B35F6496D8EC473@multiplay.co.uk> <20091119170724.GD8185@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Subject: Re: perl errors after a while on windows 7 / 2k8 r2
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:33 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Faylor" 
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:28:27PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>After a while of running one of our perl scripts errors with
>>the following on windows 7 / 2k8 r2
>>
>>3 [sig] perl 8296 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't create signal pipe, Win32 error 1
>>
>>This is with cygwin:-
>>CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 blade24 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin
>>
>>Anyone seen this issue before, or have any clue on how to
>>debug it?
> 
> Sounds like BLODA.
> 
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA
> 
> There's no reason that a CreatePipe() should fail with a "Invalid Function" error.

Unfortunately not as the machines have a clean install of Windows 7 in, with
things like Windows Defender Service disabled. Could this be a resource issue
as we are running quite a few cygwin processes on these machines.

    Regards
    Steve


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