Sorry Corinna But actually, I never saw your reply, which is odd since I keep all the cygwin.com mailing list items for a week, but I also have only ever seen 1 of my own additions to the thread(!), and I never received my initial email through the mailing list and only got confirmation that it went thru when I got my first response. Because I had noticed that some e-mails seem to get diverted, I've taken to checking the archives to see if anyone has responded to queries rather than trusting the list. But as of late last night (California time) your initial response hadn't turned up there either.
This seems to indicate what is going on (I'd suspected something like this) and had noticed that the addition of waitpid (or wait) did solve this problem in the test case. Unfortunately, for me, the way I'm using fork is to spawn 5 to 10 concurrent rsync's at a time AND retain control of the parent so as to recognize when one of the rsyncs has hung, and clean up the children when the script finishes. I've never liked doing it this way (it seems in-elegant), but not being a particular Perl hacker, I've never figured out a better way; and I've been using this same script for 7 years in one form or another on Linux, Cygwin, and Irix and have just now run into this problem. As it stands this is still a script that runs fine on current Linux, but not on current Cygwin. Is there a way to purge or bump up the limit on this list of active children? Thanks Bruce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:26 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl failure On Jul 19 16:30, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it with 1.5.20 and 1.5.21s 20060718. > > But Alas no better luck. Any Idea if this is Cygwin or Perl? > > I'm betting on cygwin. I hope to look more into this soon. Did anybody of you bother to read my reply from yesterday? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00579.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/ -- 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/
