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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:07:38 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: David Svoboda <svoboda AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin fork failure
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David Svoboda wrote:
> I have built a C++ server program called 'analyzer'. But when I try to
> run it, it fails upon trying to execute a 'fork' command. Why?
> 
> 
>    $ analyzer --KANTOO_LANGUAGE=toy -server-multiple -fork
>    Analyzer 2.0
> ***      5 [main] analyzer 1712 
> fhandler_disk_file::fixup_mmap_after_fork: requested 0x18730000 != 0x0 
> mem alloc base 0x18730000, state 0x1000, size 4096, Win32 error 487
> ***     d:\svoboda\kantoo\bin\analyzer (1712): *** 
> recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed
> ***     9 [main] analyzer 2200 fork_parent: child 1712 died waiting for 
> dll loading
> ***     Failed to fork properly!
>     ]0;~
>     svoboda AT quebec ~
>     $
> 
> The *** lines indicate the errors.
> 
> Version info: The analyzer was built with G++ 3.3.3, on WinXPSP2. Here
> is the output of cygcheck. So why does the fork call fail?

If running 'rebaseall' doesn't help (see the README) and 'analyzer' doesn't
use any DLLs that were built as part of that package (in which case you need
to tell 'rebaseall' about them), then try:

<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html>

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