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Re: ViewCVS problems


Christopher Faylor writes:
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:59:43PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >>   File "/usr/local/viewcvs-0.9.2/lib/popen.py", line 33, in popen
> >>     pid = os.fork()
> >> OSError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable
> >> --
> >>
> >> Since it's thrown on os.fork(), I suspect cygwin is the culprit, but
> >> that's just my gut feeling.
> >
> >There have been some changes in the fork-semantics (?)
> 
>  From the Cygwin changelog, the only changes I see which mention "fork" are
> in mmap and pthread.  It doesn't seem likely that either would be responsible
> for this problem.

My guess is that a DLL 'rebasing' will solve this
see
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-01/msg00003.html

HTH

Norman

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