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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:43:12 +0100
From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Couldn't allocate heap" - tried rebasing
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On 11/22/2011 9:21 PM, Jesse Ziser wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 11:33 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote:

>>
>> Tried the new version of rebase. Did not fix the problem.
>> Tried rebase -s -i. No asterisks, so presumably no collisions.
>> Tried uninstalling Sophos. Did not fix the problem.
>> Tried the 2011-11-08 snapshot. Seems to fix the problem!
>>
>> I'm not comfortable deploying a snapshot throughout the building,
>> though. I will roll back to 1.5 for now and wait for that snapshot to
>> make it to a release. Thanks!
>
> Actually, I just noticed this remark:
>
> "In summary, current Windows implementations make it
> impossible to implement a perfectly reliable fork, and occasional
> fork failures are inevitable."
>
> in winsup/doc/overview2.sgml in the source tree. Does that mean that,
> even with the improvements mentioned above, we cannot expect important
> Cygwin apps/scripts to always work reliably in a post-WinXP world? My
> company has been moving from Win2K/XP to Win7, so this would be
> important info for us.
>
> So how serious is the above remark? I don't see anything quite that
> strongly-phrased in the FAQ. Maybe it should be mentioned there?
>

As user of W7/64 and latest shapshots, I only noticed that a rebasall
is needed more frequently than on XP.
After rebaseall things are usually smooth.

Regards
Marco


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