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From: Cesar Strauss <cestrauss AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  Re: [1.7] gvim "Cannot fork" error
Date:  Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:59:49 -0300
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:14:11PM +0200, Fr??d??ric Bron wrote:
>>> I believe it worked fine before (until a few days ago). I updated to
>>> latest cygwin by running setup-1.7.exe.
>>> (Just running setup -> click several next... ??-> finish)
>>>
>>> And now if I do
>>> ?? ??/bin/gvim
>>> ?? ??:!ls
>>>
>>> I see a message 'Cannot fork' in the gvim window.
>>> And see
>>> ?? ??2 [main] gvim 2092 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp
>>> ?? ??before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
>>> in the cygterm console window.
>>>
>>> If I run '/bin/gvim -f' (foreground), then '!ls' works fine.
>> Exactly the same problem after recent update: Cannot fork and in the console
>> -196297461 [main] gvim 5284 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp
>> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> 
> This should be fixed in the next Cygwin snapshot and, subsequently, in the
> next release.
> 
> If you could test this and confirm that the snapshot fixes the problem I'll
> roll a new release.   It turns out to be a pretty serious bug.
> 
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 

I am not the OP, but I could reproduce the problem, and I confirm it is
fixed on today's snapshot (20090920). Furthermore, it solves another
issue I posted myself:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00051.html

Many thanks!

Regards,
Cesar


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