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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:27:57 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "Bad address" error while building cygwin with make -j2
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:06:04PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote:
>On 12/14/2011 4:22 PM, Heiko Elger wrote:
>
>> make: *** read jobs pipe: Bad address.  Stop.
>> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 1 jobserver tokens available; should be 2!
>
>I saw the same issue building another program on W7/64
>
>I noticed that it happens on very high loaded machine so I doubt it
>will be easily reproducible.

It's easy to reproduce.  It's the result of changes I made in recent snapshots
to handle signals in threads.

cgf

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