On Mar 31 21:36, Merlin Ran wrote: > 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?
Doesn't http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00169.html explain it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com 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/
