Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <43055044.5070802@byu.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:21:41 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: David Arnstein <arnstein AT pobox DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
References: <4304324D DOT 6080308 AT pobox DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <4304324D.6080308@pobox.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to David Arnstein on 8/18/2005 1:01 AM:
> Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window
> running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      10 [main] bash 1880 pinfo::wait: Couldn't create pipe tracker for
> pid 3768,
> 
>  Win32 error 231
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is not a bug in bash, but a limitation in the number of running
processes under Windows.  When cygwin cannot create a new process during a
fork(), you will get this behavior.  Some people have reported success
turning off (or swapping) antivirus programs, or other tricks to reduce
the number of running processes on their system.  Other than that, I don't
have any further ideas that might help you.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFDBVBE84KuGfSFAYARAimxAKCGlGvdmGm8SWan4tngHRyvUXXjcACfa2VS
dOzUefpeToh5BJCdlfPdoDk=
=KnD2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--
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/