Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:18:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: "S. Cowles" cc: Zsh Users , Cygwin List Subject: Re: zsh 4.3.0 dev 1 with cygwin1.dll 1.5.15 In-Reply-To: <200504191819.38623.scowles@earthlink.net> Message-ID: References: <200504191819 DOT 38623 DOT scowles AT earthlink DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, S. Cowles wrote: > I don't have a clear perception which mailing list is the more appropriate for > this question, so I've sent a version of this message to the cygwin users' > mailing list and to the zsh users' list. Any help would be appreciated. This is really a Cygwin issue. If you can wait, I'm building this version right now and maybe I'll be able to give you a better answer as to what's going on. > The problem is that I have had no success running zsh 4.3.0 dev 1 on the last > two releases of cygwin1.dll, > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 host 1.5.14(0.126/4/2) 2005-04-01 13:40 i686 > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 host 1.5.15(0.127/4/2) 2005-04-18 12:20 i686 > > The builds of zsh proceed with no undue problems, but test A05 fails. The > following is the message from running the cvs version of 4.3.0 dev 1 (pulled > about 10h00 PDT, GMT +0700, 19 apr 2005) against cygwin1.dll > 1.5.15(0.127/4/2): > > ./A05execution.ztst: starting. > Test ./A05execution.ztst failed: bad status 1, expected 0 from: > path=($ZTST_testdir/command.tmp/dir1 > $ZTST_testdir/command.tmp/dir2 > .) > tstcmd > path=($storepath) > Error output: > 6 [main] zsh 2052 fork_parent: child 3084 died waiting for longjmp > before initialization > (eval):4: fork failed: interrupt > Was testing: path (1) > ./A05execution.ztst: test failed. > 249108 [main] zsh 2052 fork_parent: child 3640 died waiting for longjmp > before initialization > ZTST_cleanup:2: fork failed: no such file or directory > > > When I try to run this build of zsh, every call to a non-builtin resource > results in a fork failure. I have asked the cygwin mailing list if there > might be some user configurable resource that would fix this problem. On the > other hand, the cygwin release of zsh 4.2.4 does run under this latest > release of cygwin1.dll. Before I jump in, I wondered if anyone had already > run into this problem and had any pointers to causes. > > -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/