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Re: Failure with fork()
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:00:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: Failure with fork()
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jun 27 13:34, Arjen Markus wrote:
> According to the original thread it has to do with handling the stack.
> The small program is
> meant to show that there is a discrepancy between the way Cygwin
> handles this versus
> the way Linux does that - something to do with accessing more memory
> pages than expected,
> but this is not an area I am familiar with ;).
>
> > It dies after somewhat below 500 forks and I think I found the reason.
> > Stay tuned.
> >
>
> I will. It would be great if this can be solved.
Should be fixed in CVS. Thanks for the report.
Corinna
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