At 02:46 AM 3/23/2003 -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >Hate to say it, but...I've got the (dreadded) PID problem
Do you mean e.g. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg01350.html >Hello everyone, > >I haven't been here in a while as my main computer died and I was >practically Cygwin'less. I have just finished a fresh install of Windows >2000 Pro/SP3 with all of the latest cygwin bits (that I need) which is >running 1.3.22 . I'll get to the point...While fixing the permissions on my You shouldn't *have to* do that if you use the latest setup. Next time it happens that you have to, could you capture (getfacl ) an offending file, the directory it is in and the top directory (c:\ ?) under which setup created the hierarchy. Note that if your fresh install is over existing directories, unexpected interactions can take place. >installation (via a combination of `find -exec' and `chmod'), and when I say >while I mean pretty much straight away, I started getting tones of "Access >is denied" messages from find. Sure enough I couldn't do anything from my >shell. I hate to say it but I can't do much with cygwin now (need to build a >lot of tools) as after running a few fork()ing processes I get an "Access is >denied" message from the binary that's being executed. > >I've attached the output of `cygcheck -svr' and the strace output. I don't >want to sound like I'm bitching about this, really I'm not :-) If there's >anything I can do to provide info please ask. > The strace shows: 147 22879819 [main] bash 1364 read_sd: file = G:\Cygwin\bin\which.exe: len=152 119 22879938 [main] bash 1364 check_file_access: flags 1, ret 0 This says that which.exe is executable. No permission issue. 72 22880544 [main] bash 1364 fork: entering 129 22880673 [main] bash 1364 stack_base: bottom 0x230000, top 0x30000, stack 0x22F520, size 2784, reserve 2097152 78 22880751 [main] bash 1364 fork_parent: CreateProcess (G:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe, G:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe, 0, 0, 1, 20, 0, 0, 0x22F9B0, 0x22FA00) 476 22881227 [main] bash 1364 seterrno_from_win_error: /netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.22-1/winsup/cygwin/fork.cc:482 windows error 5 112 22881339 [main] bash 1364 geterrno_from_win_error: windows error 5 == errno 13 72 22881411 [main] bash 1364 fork_parent: CreateProcessA failed, Win32 error 5 But bash cannot fork itself. No idea why. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
