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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:30:09 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows XP and cygwin's heap
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:42:57PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>> > C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space
>> > for cygwin's heap (0x9B0000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
>> > C:\cygwin\bin\mkdir.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space
>> > for cygwin's heap (0x9B0000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
>> > bash: cd: /home/: no such file or directory
>> > > any help would be appreciated,
>>
>> Old dll and/or prerelease of XP?  Try updating both.
>>
>I have a friend that just installed cygwin from scratch in a XP release
>2600 and gets the same error any time bash tryes to execute something,
>also ls.exe
>
>C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
>(0xAF0000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487

Oddly enough, the message that you are reporting indicates that you're
running an old version of cygwin.  It sounds like you and your friend
should actually install the newest version of cygwin and make sure that
there are no extra cygwin1.dll's on your system.

But, of course, this is all common sense, so surely you've done that...

cgf

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