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AW: [bulk] - Re: pipe error depending on drive
>Von: Larry Hall (Cygwin)>
Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juni 2012 04:31
>Betreff: [bulk] - Re: pipe error depending on drive
>
>On 6/7/2012 10:30 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a strange behavior of cygwin here. I have two machines with the
>> nearly (*)he same configuration on machine A everything works good, on
>> B I get the error
>>
>> 1 [main] sh 1884 sig_send: error sending signal -40 to pid 1884, pipe
>>handle 0x768, Win32 error 6
>> sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>> depending on which drive I start a perl program which uses a pipe via
>> IO::File->new("dosomething.pl |");
>
><http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures>
[zac] In the meantime it turned out that the fork fails only if the bash was started form a network drive.
If the bash was started from local drive there is no problem with fork even if one switches to a network drive after launching bash.
><snip>
>
>> Two other issues are also strange :
>>
>> First if I try to update machine A I get the warning that this is the
>> first time that I setup version 1.7 (setup 2.774)
>
>More than 1 installation on this machine? Check 'cygcheck -srv' output.
[zac] Nope! And it was not the first time I update Cygwin. The ones before work without such a notice.
[zac] Thanks and have a good time
[zac] Norbert
DEWEK 2012, 11th German Wind Energy Conference, 7-8 November 2012 in Bremen
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