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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:11:46 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Odd perl 5.8.0 error
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Hello Andrew,

> All of a sudden a Perl script of mine that has been working fine for a
> long time stopped working. I've traced it down to the following line in
> Perl:

> my $nbr_msgs = `grep -ce "^From " "$returned_dir/$sender"`;

> Seems innocent enough right? Here's the error message:

> C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** couldn't release memory 0x9D4000(1032192) 
> for
> 'C:\Cygwin\lib\perl5\5.8.0\cygwin-multi-64int\auto\Fcntl\Fcntl.dll' 
> alignment, Win32 error 487

>      13 [main] perl 1040 sync_with_child: child 5780(0x648) died before
> initialization with status code 0x1

> I searched winerror.h to find;

> #define ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS 487L

> Any ideas?

Looks like a rebase issue, though I thought that only Win95/98/ME are
affected by this.

Does the failure happens sporadically or on regular basis now?

You don't have updated perl or cygwin before this happend the first
time?


Gerrit
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