On Jul 29 11:45, George Morin wrote: > I am currently running an application which uses > fork/exec to run various background jobs. Every once > in a while (less than .5%) I've found that fork fails > and with strerror have received a permission denied > error. From that point on, all subsequent forks will > fail. In between my fork and exec the child process > changes directories and redirects stdin, stdout and > stderr. I have been unable to reproduce the above > behaviour in a scaled down program. I believe this > code has worked without incident on a unix box and has > only recently been discovered now that the code has > been ported to cygwin. I poked around google and the > archives and haven't found an acceptable solution. I > haven't noticed any unusual behaviour with my process > ids (I'm not using AOF) or system resources. I'm > running cygwin with Win2k and gcc 3.3.1. Can someone > please offer suggestions for further investigation or > perhaps a possible workaround? I have been able to use > spawn() instead of fork/exec and it seemed to work > fine but I don't know how to include the preprocessing > that was done between the fork and exec. Any help is > appreciated. > > Thanks for your consideration, > -Garrick
Sure you're running Cygwin 1.4.0? What does uname -a report? Or better, read http://cygwin.com/problems.html and follow the instructions. Your description is not enough to give any hint. Did you try your application under 1.5.10? Can you create a simple(tm) testcase(tm) to reproduce the problem? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
