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RE: vfork failure?
- To: mecklen at ptc dot com
- Subject: RE: vfork failure?
- From: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:21:38 +0200 (METDST)
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
Hi Robert, you wrote:
: I am having a problem with b18 (on pentium pro, NT4.0SP3):
:
: The heap has been split, CYGWIN can't fork this process.
: Increase the heap_chunk_size in the registry and try again.
: Also, I'm not sure what registry entry the message refers to, so I
: haven't tried (re)setting heap_chunk_size.
Sigh, I already asked this twice, but got no reply.
The MSDN documentation about the registry doesn't mention this, nor the
NT books I've read so far.
Is there any workaround with linker options?
Unixes can fork my 160MB process with the default of 4MB stack just fine!
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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