Re: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix?

[Ashok Vadekar <avadekar at certicom dot com>]

I may have run into a related problem under Win2K.  I tried to make
calc OOTB and got as far as the help directory before it started spawning
as many sub-shells as it could, until the machine more or less stopped.
It seemed to be trying to resize the swap file to make more room, but
there should have been no need for the scores of sh.exe's showing up in the
task manager list.  This effect always seemed to occur at the same point in
the make, so it doesn't appear to be an accumulated memory loss fault, from
these symptom, but it could very well be related for fork().

I ended up avoiding the problem by making the help sub tree under solaris, 
and then finishing the x86 build under cygwin.  It didn't produce a completely
correct binary, but it sort of works.

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:59:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:50:08PM -0700, Andrew Kalman wrote:
> >>The bottom line, cruel as it sounds is "I don't feel like it." This is
> >>not an issue for the way that Red Hat uses cygwin so it is not part of
> >>my official job.
> >etc.
> >
> >Fair enough -- there's nothing wrong with prioritizing one's work.
> >
> >Also, the same fault occurs in Win2000 -- it's not just a Win98 issue.
> 
> I have never seen anything remotely like this on Windows 2000.  I use
> it extensively.
> 
> This is YA reason for someone who is having to problem to debug it.
> 
> But, I understand that there is not a single solitary person in the entire
> cygwin mailing list community who is capable of doing that.
> 
> Too bad...
> 
> cgf
> 
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