Re: New problem with 20110803

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 12:29:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug  7 03:51, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> There's another problem with the 20110803 snapshot.  When a fork fails
>> with the following message:
>> 
>>        0 [main] cmake 5088 child_info_fork::abort: address space
>> needed by 'cyggcc_s-1.dll' (E20A0000) is already occupied
>> 
>> ALL user processes except for mintty, even those in other terminal
>> windows, are "Stopped" (prefixed with "S" in ps) and do not respond to
>> Ctrl-C or the like.  A new terminal can be started, but then all
>> fork() calls fail with:
>> 
>>       0 [main] sh 4680 fork: child -1 - forked process died
>> unexpectedly, retry 10, exit code -1073741819, errno 11
>
>I can't reproduce this.  Only the process which gets the "address space
>needed" message is hindered, not any other process in any other terminal
>window.

And, indeed, since the only thing I should have done was expose the
error message to the console, it's hard to see how it could affect
other processes.  There should be no change in behavior other than
writing the message to stderr rather than just as an unseen (even
if you were doing 'strace -m all') strace message.

cgf

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