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Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> Just an FYI:  Cygwin's fork() implementation has an intermittent bug
> when running on Windows Vista Beta 2=20
> (Beta 2 will be released to the general public soon).
>=20
> Here's an example error (from running  bash -l ):
>=20
>       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
>=20
> Here's another example (doing an ls inside bash):
>=20
> 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
>=20
> The odd thing is that it sometimes works, and sometimes gives this
> error.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20

Maybe someone can offer to fix this now that Vista has gone into the
public beta phase.  I can post links here if someone asks for them.

--=20
Robert Pendell
shinji257 AT uplink DOT net

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