From: kunglao AT prairienet DOT org (Seymore Buttz)
Subject: Re: Sergey's cygwin.dll
5 Jun 1997 22:00:41 -0700
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Colman Curtin wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> I get similar errors to this.
> as with the previous example, but ls works fine at first but say after
> a cd
> to a sub dir it fails.
> 
> :/root/usr/src> cd tsock
> :usr/src/tsock> ls
> (C:\GNUWIN32\B18\H-I386-CYGWIN32\BIN\BASH.EXE 1000) forkee heap_init:
> unable
> to
> allocate heap, win32 error 8
> cygwin: terminating
> fork_helper: child died before initialization with win32 error 1
> 
> running on Win95,p133,16M.
> 

In my case, there were some more old cygwin.dll files in the
distribution.  Check /H-i386*/bin and /H-i386*/i386*/lib.
Just rename those to something else, and you'll be all set.
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