According to the original thread it has to do with handling the stack. The small program is meant to show that there is a discrepancy between the way Cygwin handles this versus the way Linux does that - something to do with accessing more memory pages than expected, but this is not an area I am familiar with ;).
> It dies after somewhat below 500 forks and I think I found the reason. > Stay tuned. > I will. It would be great if this can be solved. Regards, Arjen -- 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
