From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject: Re: Sergey's cygwin.dll
4 Jun 1997 16:05:30 -0700
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In article <3394C1CF DOT BA4756DF AT prairienet DOT org>,
Seymore Buttz  <kunglao AT prairienet DOT org> wrote:
>Hey, I was wondering if anyone else has had trouble with Sergey's
>cygwin.dll?  I tried it on my OSR2 Win95, copying cygwin.dll and
>libcygwin.a to their appropriate places.  Here's what happens when I run
>some prorgams:
>
>bash$ ls
>(unknown) heap_init: unable to allocate heap, win32 error 8
>cygwin: terminating
>bash$
>
>Sergey told me error 8 is an out of memory error, but I've got plenty. 
>And the Win95 swap file is no where near maxed out, should it want more
>memory.
>
>So, any ideas why the dll might do this?

I had the same problem when I had a 'make' running in the background using
the old, non-Sergey version of cygwin.dll.  When I stopped the program
I stopped getting this error.

You might try running things after a reboot, just to be safe.
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