On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:13:21PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >Having a strange issue where process creation seems to fail for no good >reason. I think I've hit a process creation limit. > >Googling around I found: >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-01/msg00249.html > >Is it still the case that cygwin is limited to a max number of >processes and is this on a user by user basis as starting the same >thing under a different user seems to work.
The process limit is 256 per program. You should see an EAGAIN errno being set if the process limit is hit. The overall per-user process limit is controlled by Windows. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
