On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Gary E Barnes wrote: > I have tried perlrebase and also rebaseall. I tried deleting cygwin from > the machine and reinstalling from scratch. > None of that fixes the problem. If it is some sort of rebase problem then > the usual tools don't fix it. > > And from what you said about calling execve when there are no interesting > shell redirections, it would appear > that perl calling system() simply doesn't work at all for some reason.
Yes, it failed with a rebaseall-related fork failure because you used system with the system sh-wrapper. If you call it as list you wouldn't see this error. Yes, Calling perl within perl within perl will lead to memory conflicts. This a known problem we will have to live for a while unfortunately. There's not enough DLL space. Even less the more apps are loaded. Yes, this is fragile. That's why I recommended not to use system with strings. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
