X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DF9385D.4070307@ece.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:55:25 +0300 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable References: <31061 DOT 1308136483 AT freon DOT franz DOT com> In-Reply-To: <31061.1308136483@freon.franz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 On 15/06/2011 2:14 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: > When running make, which spawns shell scripts from time to time, I see > this: > ../../version.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > The list archives are full of discussions about this (did you search them?). The short version is that Windows vista/7 makes it "difficult" for cygwin to fork() processes reliably. > If I run again, it works fine. You're in fairly good shape, then. Be glad. Ryan -- 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