see: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00657.html
When start a new Windows process, the system attempt to recycle a previously used PID, so the maximam PID in the system is low. But when I invoke a command in Cygwin, the PID of new process always increase. It may not be a problem as long as the maximam PID doesn't exceed the limit, but unfortunately it will. As I discovered, my Win2000 Professional system's PID limit is a little more than 17000, many configure script I have run, such as mysql and net-snmp's, aborted because unsuccessfully fork(). Why does Cygwin's fork() behave unlike native Windows, since it is based on CreateProcess()(http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC77)? I'v searched a post on why use two types of PID(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00139.html), does it matter? -- 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/
