Hello Andrew, > All of a sudden a Perl script of mine that has been working fine for a > long time stopped working. I've traced it down to the following line in > Perl:
> my $nbr_msgs = `grep -ce "^From " "$returned_dir/$sender"`; > Seems innocent enough right? Here's the error message: > C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** couldn't release memory 0x9D4000(1032192) > for > 'C:\Cygwin\lib\perl5\5.8.0\cygwin-multi-64int\auto\Fcntl\Fcntl.dll' > alignment, Win32 error 487 > 13 [main] perl 1040 sync_with_child: child 5780(0x648) died before > initialization with status code 0x1 > I searched winerror.h to find; > #define ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS 487L > Any ideas? Looks like a rebase issue, though I thought that only Win95/98/ME are affected by this. Does the failure happens sporadically or on regular basis now? You don't have updated perl or cygwin before this happend the first time? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
