Perl failure

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 21 07:49:00 GMT 2006


On Jul 20 12:28, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> This seems to indicate what is going on (I'd suspected something like
> this) and had noticed that the addition of waitpid (or wait) did solve
> this problem in the test case.  Unfortunately,  for me,  the way I'm
> using fork is to spawn 5 to 10 concurrent rsync's at a time AND retain
> control of the parent so as to recognize when one of the rsyncs has
> hung,  and clean up the children when the script finishes.  I've never
> liked doing it this way (it seems in-elegant),  but not being a
> particular Perl hacker,  I've never figured out a better way;  and I've
> been using this same script for 7 years in one form or another on Linux,
> Cygwin, and Irix and have just now run into this problem.  As it stands
> this is still a script that runs fine on current Linux,  but not on
> current Cygwin.  Is there a way to purge or bump up the limit on this
> list of active children?

No, but here's the answer to your problem:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00632.html


Corinna

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