nanothief wrote: > When attempting to use an external command in vim (mainly make), I receive > the following error: > :make > sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Works fine with the distributed vim binary. > shell returned 128 > Press ENTER or type command to continue > E40: Can't open errorfile /tmp/v817919/0 > > However if i use make from outside vim, it works perfectly. Also, if use > :shell from within vim, almost all commands (ie ls, make, fortune, etc) fail > from the same fork error, while only the builtin commands (echo, pwd, cd, > etc) succeed. There is no problem running multiple bash prompts, vim windows > or make commands simultaneously. The problem only occurs when inside vim. Also works fine. > I have found many references to a fork error in past discussions, but in the > ones I found there was no solution relevant to me. > > I built vim from the sources supplied from the cygwin installer, using > almost all the features and most of the interfaces (python, tcl, mzscheme, > perl). The cygwin directory is on a NTFS partition. My cygwin variable is > set to nontsec tty binmode. Finally, I have 2gb of ram, and a dual core > intel core 2 6600 processor. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated The CYGWIN env. var. only has nontsec different, the other 2 are the defaults (no need to even put them)... those are the 2 differences: your build of vim, and the nontsec, experiment with changing the later and find if your binary is the problem. -- René Berber -- 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/
