Bug in Cygwin-1.1.4 - cannot fork: No more processes

[Corinna Vinschen]

Are you sure not having a second cygwin1.dll somewhere on
your system? I suggest searching for it.

Corinna


On Tuesday 12 December 2000 07:55, u n c h a n c e wrote:
> I have had the same problem.
>
> It happens every time I run bash 2.04 latest version.
>
> When first invoked after a reboot, bash exits with
> this error:
>
> C:\BIN\BASH.EXE: *** Sig proc MT init failed
>
>       0 [unknown (0xFFE278D9)] ? 0 lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0,
> pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32 error 6
>
> Subsequent invocations of bash succeed without
> problem, but at random intervals when trying to
> execute a command in the shell, the command will
> fail and instead a message like this will occur
>
> C:\BIN\BASH.EXE: *** Sig proc MT init failed
>
>       0 [unknown (0xFFE2A047)] ? 0 lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0,
> pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32 error 6
>       0 [main] BASH 1000 sync_with_child: child -1869325(0x8C) died
> before initialization with status code 0x1
>   42880 [main] BASH 1000 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for
> longjmp bash.exe: fork: No more processes
>
> The same command when executed again will then
> succeed without problem and everything will be
> fine until the next error like this. It happens
> after maybe every 50 or 100 commands.
>
> I did not have this problem until quite recently.
> I was able to run earlier versions of bash in
> the same environment without observing this.
> I am running Windows 98. It may have something
> to do with the fact that I recently downloaded
> the Windows NT port of COMMAND.EXE, though it
> happens also if I run bash in the COMMAND.COM
> shell.
>
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