-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Kyle Johnson on 6/19/2006 8:01 AM: > Hi everyone. > I'm trying to use tar to setup a cron backup job on one of my systems, > but I'm getting the following errors: > > 1 $ tar -czPf /cygdrive/d/Backups/`date +%m%d%Y`.tgz > /cygdrive/c/Shares/dist/*.DBF > 2 147 [main] tar 2344 C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe: *** fatal error - fork: > can't reserve memory for stack 0x23EBE0 - 0x240000, Win32 error 487 > 3 7 [main] tar 1372 child_copy: stack write copy failed, > 0x23EBE0..0x240000, done 0, windows pid 2353940, Win32 error 5 > 4 tar: child process: Cannot fork > 5 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
That is not a bug in tar, but cygwin telling you that Windows limitations made it impossible to fork. Try a recent cygwin snapshot to see if that helps your situation. If not, see if you have any programs running that might be interfering with cygwin (known culprits include, but are not limited to, certain antivirus programs, a buggy biometric reader driver; search the archives for more details.) - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin tar maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFElr9V84KuGfSFAYARAqjWAJ4jB/TTP1G6sAYxcepcQi2GZuVP2wCfWNfM XuOgoeYM/g+Z+aWh+uOFSRs= =GiB+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
