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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:53:32 +0200
From: Luc Hermitte <hermitte AT free DOT fr>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem: fork: permission denied, after intensive use of scripts
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Hello,

* On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:30:52PM +0200, Michael Gorbunov <michael DOT gorbunov AT uni-graz DOT at> wrote:
> I have noticed a problem in cygwin when run on Windows 2000
> and Windows XP. After running scripts with a big number of
> command repeated in a long cycle, at some point I cannot
> start anything and receive messages like
> fort: permission denied.
> It looks like PIDs that were used once cannot be reused.
> Does anyone know the solution?

I know a firewall that causes such problems : Agnitum Outpost Firewall.
If you are using this firewall, don't look anywhere else. It's its
fault.

-- 
Luc Hermitte

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