From: hassan AT cp10 DOT es DOT xerox DOT com (Hassan Blurfrushan)
Subject: problems with bash (fork, Permission denied erros)
14 Aug 1997 21:47:35 -0700
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I have noticed 2 problems when using bash:


The first problem happens on both beta18 and
beta17.1 versions. When running shell scripts
on my NT 4.0 workstation, intermittently I get
a "Permission denied" message like this:

/usr/bin/grep: Permission denied
/usr/bin/tr: Permission denied

This always happens when muliple pipes are used.
e.g.  ps | grep -v grep | grep abc | awk '{print $NF}'



The second problem happens on beta18 only (works
fine on beta17.1). If there are any long if statements
like the following:

if [ $a = $b ]; then
  (about 2000 lines of shell stuff here)
fi

Then bash fails with the following error:
fork_helper: child died before initialization with win32 error 128
fork_helper: child died before initialization with win32 error 128
fork: No more processes




H. Blurfrushan



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