X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44863E64.8080003@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:48:04 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin and Windows Vista Beta 2 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Chuck McDevitt wrote: > Just an FYI: Cygwin's fork() implementation has an intermittent bug > when running on Windows Vista Beta 2 > (Beta 2 will be released to the general public soon). > > Here's an example error (from running bash -l ): > > 6 [main] ? (3572) c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - > couldn't alloc > ate heap, Win32 error 0, base 0x800000, top 0x810000, reserve_size > 61440, allocs > ize 65536, page_const 4096 > 62 [main] bash 4888 child_copy: stack write copy failed, > 0x22E300..0x230000 > , done 0, windows pid 2286132, Win32 error 5 > bash: fork: No error > > Here's another example (doing an ls inside bash): > > bash-3.1$ ls > 20 [main] ? (5248) c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - > couldn't alloc > ate heap, Win32 error 0, base 0x800000, top 0x820000, reserve_size > 126976, alloc > size 131072, page_const 4096 > 137604415 [main] bash 4436 child_copy: stack write copy failed, > 0x22E940..0x2300 > 00, done 0, windows pid 2287732, Win32 error 5 > bash: fork: No error > > The odd thing is that it sometimes works, and sometimes gives this > error. > > Is it possible there were some "reserved for future use" parameters on > some Win32 calls that aren't getting initialized properly, and are now > being used by Vista? As the main Cygwin page says: "The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE." I offer that just in case there's any confusion about the state of Cygwin and Vista. With that in mind, have you tried a snapshot? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/