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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fork failure patch for cygrunsrv
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On Jun 16 16:49, Hochstedler, Ben (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> fork() can fail when the system runs out of non-interactive heap space
> (because there's not enough heap memory to allocate to the launched
> process). See:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824422
> 
> The attached patch fixes two problems:
> 1. cygrunsrv doesn't exit when fork returns -1 (failed to
>    spawn child process)
> 2. log message doesn't include the proper errno of the
>    fork failure.

Thanks for the patch.  I've uploaded a new cygrunsrv with this patch
applied.  Just... next time, please include a ChangeLog entry.


Thanks,
Corinna

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