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From: "Laurence F. Wood" <LaurenceWood AT SunyataSystems DOT Com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Windows XP and cygwin's heap
Date: 	Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:28:48 -0500
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I have seen this problem before caused by conflicting cygwin1.dll files.
Why not modify cygwin1.dll to detect the presence of conflicting cygwin1.dll
files and report this to the user in an informative way.



-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf Of
Christopher Faylor
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 6:30 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows XP and cygwin's heap

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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