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Subject: Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use
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On Feb  8 11:22, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> I can reproduce.
> 
> On my system (2012-02-07 snapshot instrumented), the following is able
> to exercise the fork failure any time.
> 
> I do this from within a dedicated directory named "stc".
> Current shell seems indifferent. Here it is /bin/tcsh and
> i've tried with /bin/bash with the same result.
> 
> % cat doit1
> #!/usr/bin/tcsh -f
> setenv PATH "/usr/bin"
> cp /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll .
> ls
> rm cyggcc_s-1.dll
> %
> % cat doit2
> #!/tmp/tcsh -f
> setenv PATH "/usr/bin"
> cp /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll .
> ls
> rm cyggcc_s-1.dll
> %
> 
> Also you will need to do (once): cp /usr/bin/tcsh.exe /tmp/tcsh.exe
> 
> 
> % ./doit1
> cyggcc_s-1.dll  doit1  doit2
> %
> % ./doit2
>       1 [main] tcsh 3660 dll_list::reserve_space: address space needed by 'cygiconv-2.dll' (0x674C0000 with type 1=DLL_LINK)
>      [...etc...]

Thanks for the testcase!  I can reproduce now as well.  I think I see
what's going wrong, but I'm not quite sure what the best fix is.  Stay
tuned.


Corinna

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