From: sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Corrupt Process Listing 10 May 1998 08:11:09 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD7C13.7D385AB0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: gnuwin32 , "'Ian Collins'" Ian Collins wrote: > I am running a job that executes thousands of processes. It doesn't seem > to matter whether I run this job interactively or in the background. > The job is essentially a script with lots of calls to "make". After a > while, make refuses to start any more processes, just echoing the error > "waitforjob: no children". It's a bug of ash - it doesn't handle pids more than 32767. Copy bash to your /bin/sh. > > After this happens, the output of ps (the ps with coolview) looks as > follows, > (Incidentally, the date is on the PC is correct at, Sun May 10 10:12:36 > 1998). > > /usr3/ian: ps > PID PPID PGID WINPID UID TTY STIME COMMAND > I 32896 1000 32896 180 500 -1 09:57:02 > e:\usr\local\libexec\in.telnetd > O 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jan 01 > I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jan 01 > 0 0 0 0 0 2 Jan 01 1. Replace ps.exe with a new one bundled with coolview. 2. Be sure cygwinb19.dll from coolview is the only on your hard disk. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".