X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:47:21 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Perl failure Message-ID: <20060721074721.GA18175@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20060720072610 DOT GG8056 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 On Jul 20 12:28, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > This seems to indicate what is going on (I'd suspected something like > this) and had noticed that the addition of waitpid (or wait) did solve > this problem in the test case. Unfortunately, for me, the way I'm > using fork is to spawn 5 to 10 concurrent rsync's at a time AND retain > control of the parent so as to recognize when one of the rsyncs has > hung, and clean up the children when the script finishes. I've never > liked doing it this way (it seems in-elegant), but not being a > particular Perl hacker, I've never figured out a better way; and I've > been using this same script for 7 years in one form or another on Linux, > Cygwin, and Irix and have just now run into this problem. As it stands > this is still a script that runs fine on current Linux, but not on > current Cygwin. Is there a way to purge or bump up the limit on this > list of active children? No, but here's the answer to your problem: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00632.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/