X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-498108.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-MDAV-Processed: mail1.multiplay.co.uk, Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:40 +0000 X-Spam-Processed: mail1.multiplay.co.uk, Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:40 +0000 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 213.123.247.160 X-Return-Path: prvs=1574d7d3db=killing AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk X-Envelope-From: killing AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <1414A4852E1142F2AFD9E1C45E75858D@multiplay.co.uk> From: "Steven Hartland" To: References: <20091119170724 DOT GD8185 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Subject: Re: perl errors after a while on windows 7 / 2k8 r2 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:28:27PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote: >>After a while of running one of our perl scripts errors with >>the following on windows 7 / 2k8 r2 >> >>3 [sig] perl 8296 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't create signal pipe, Win32 error 1 >> >>This is with cygwin:- >>CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 blade24 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin >> >>Anyone seen this issue before, or have any clue on how to >>debug it? > > Sounds like BLODA. > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA > > There's no reason that a CreatePipe() should fail with a "Invalid Function" error. Unfortunately not as the machines have a clean install of Windows 7 in, with things like Windows Defender Service disabled. Could this be a resource issue as we are running quite a few cygwin processes on these machines. Regards Steve -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple