Too many open files

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 06:28 PM 2/26/2002, Kirk Erickson wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I love cygwin.  I've had no problems at home (running under XP),
>but I'm experiencing a problem reported earlier by Benoit Rochefort
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00791.html
>
>under Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2.
>I can reproduce by doing a 
>
>         find . -type l
>
>in my home directory.  The find hangs, and even if I kill it, 
>subsequent commands fail:
>
>[kirke@BAG HINTS]$ cat HINTS
>cat: HINTS: Too many open files
>
>I've attached cygcheck output.
>
>Appreciate any suggestions,

<snip>


>   386k 1998/02/26 C:\WINNT\cygwinb19.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                   "cygwinb19.dll" v0.0 ts=1998/2/25 2:22


Get rid of the DLL above.  Never mix Cygwin DLL versions.


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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