I happen to have access to a an AMD64 system running Windows. All the cygwin shells fail to fork with the following. I'd be willing to try coding and running a patch if the experts would care to offer an idea of what to try.
$P$Gls C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fork: can't reserve memory for stack 0x410000 - 0x610 000, Win32 error 0 35 [main] zsh 248 sync_with_child: child 2648(0x2C0) died before initializa tion with status code 0x1 214 [main] zsh 248 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp zsh: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable $P$G -- 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/