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From: "Andrew Kalman" <aektravel AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix?
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 20:24:24 -0700
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Sep 2001 03:24:24.0930 (UTC) FILETIME=[ECC4CC20:01C138DE]

I'm a Cygwin newbie who installed it on my Win98 machine in order to 
implement a recursive Makefile that includes this line, among others:

# $(1) is target, $(2) is regexp to retrieve index chars
INDEX=$(shell expr '$(1)' : '$(2)')

(Couldn't do this in the MS-DOS "Window" environment, etc.).

Anyway, now when I run make and generate a large number (400+) of libraries 
in a single pass, I often get the

"vfork: resource temporarily unavailable"

error message. This is in Win98, 256MB, with nothing else running, etc.  The 
_only_ way to fix this is to reboot.

I searched the archives, and found many mentions of this problem, but no 
fixes.

Am I simply out of luck? Are there plans to fix this? I can't upgrade to 
Win2000 because of a lack of drivers for h/w on this machine.

Regards, and I think Cygwin is a great tool. I just wish it didn't have this 
problem ...

P.S. I've now also tried the same build on a Win2000 SP2 machine, and am 
having similar problems (!).


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Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D.  aek AT pumpkininc DOT com


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