fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Ryan Johnson]

On 15/06/2011 2:14 PM, Kevin Layer wrote:
> When running make, which spawns shell scripts from time to time, I see
> this:
>    ../../version.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
The list archives are full of discussions about this (did you search 
them?). The short version is that Windows vista/7 makes it "difficult" 
for cygwin to fork() processes reliably.

> If I run again, it works fine.
You're in fairly good shape, then. Be glad.

Ryan


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