X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: <200605180403.k4I43gNv025423@tigris.pounder.sol.net> From: cygzz AT trodman DOT com (Tom Rodman) To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: simple test triggers fork errs for me in 4/27 snapshot In-reply-to: References: <200605161408 DOT k4GE8TVs013464 AT tigris DOT pounder DOT sol DOT net> <20060517031232 DOT GV1783 AT ns1 DOT anodized DOT com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 23:03:42 -0500 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Thanks to all for trying the test. On Tue 5/16/06 21:20 PDT "Bryan D. Thomas" wrote: > >> If I revert to the April 3 snapshot it works fine. For the 4/27 > >> snapshot, it's repeatable > > > I see this under 20060309 as well. > > This is repeatable on my system with both 20060427 and 20060309 versions of > cygwin1.dll. Perhaps we have very similar output of 'find /usr -print0'? IIRC I tried to tickle the fork err w/: while : ;do bash -c true ; done # but this worked fine w/the 4/27 snap Here's the nonsense command sequence again: cd /tmp;echo -ne '#!/bin/bash -u\nfoo "$@"\n' >bar;chmod +x bar foo() { for f ;do bash -c true ;done ; } ; export -f foo find /usr -print0|xargs -0 ./bar In the function "foo" "f" takes on the value from the find output, but absolutely nothing is done with the value "$f". Maybe the fork error would still show up if "find /usr -print0", was replaced w/"yes". > What would be the interaction between this and the SharedSection parameter[1]? The box that is acting up for me is a Windows 2000 server, w/OOTB heap settings. It is running an Informix database server. > What other data would be helpful to collect? > cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out attached. too busy, probably for about a week to post more :-< -- 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/