Greetings, Michael Wild! >>> * Trying to run a shell command from Python fails 50% of the time >>> with: address space needed by 'cygz.dll' (0x450000) is already >>> occupied. >> >> Such a low address on 64bit is an indication of an image intercept >> and/or BLODA in my experience. >>
> Thanks for your answer. Any suggestions on how I could find out what > is causing this? I found Corinna mentioning the hacking of cygwin.dll > by adding a call to sleep in the error handler in order to allow the > inspection of /proc/$PID/maps in an old thread, but perhaps there is > something more convenient now? You can try enabling DLL inspection through CYGWIN environment variable for a start. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html#cygwinenv-implemented-options -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 02.02.2015, <02:25> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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