Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:08:03 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Zsh observations Message-ID: <20010705100803.A22011@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20010704215312 DOT 0425ae78 AT imap DOT mscha DOT org> <000101c10517$9c432f80$21c9ca95 AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <000101c10517$9c432f80$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:59:10AM +0400 On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:59:10AM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: >> >> 1. zsh doesn't like it if ...\cygwin\bin is not in the Windows >> path. If I >> start up zsh without this, it works as long as the current directory is >> /usr/bin. If I then do >> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH" >> export PATH >> cd $HOME >> (either on the command line, or in /etc/zprofile), any external command I >> run gives: >> 0 [main] zsh 2432 sync_with_child: child 2356(0x230) >> died before >> initialization with status code 0x80 >> 1288 [main] zsh 2432 sync_with_child: *** child state >> waiting for longjmp >> /home/mscha/.zshrc:150: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable >> > >Well ... it does work if you start cmd.exe (I am on NT), and then run zsh as >e.g. \cygwin\bin\zsh. It does not work if you define shortcut and start zsh >via shortcut. Both with current snapshot. > >I am pretty sure it worked at some point (because I did have shortcut to >zsh). I cannot recall any changes in zsh that could result in this problem, >but who knows. I can't get it to fail in this fashion. I've taken x:\cygwin\bin from my path. It was being added in my zshenv file anyway. It works just fine. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/