Re: No PIDs left, failure to fork, child state waiting for longjmp

> I see the behaviour when I try to compile Image Magick. This doesn't have to do with your PID issue, but why not use the precompiled Cygwin binaries on the ImageMagick site? I just downloaded it the other day. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum

Re: No PIDs left, failure to fork, child state waiting for longjmp AND ps FAILS

I notice another thing about when the errors begin to cascade; the ps command fails also momentarily, then works again! Here is what I could see in two terminal windows; the first was running the command "./configure --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl --enable-shared" in /usr/local/src/ImageMagick-5.

No PIDs left, failure to fork, child state waiting for longjmp

I love cygwin. But... I think there is a bug in cygwin that has to do with an inability to reuse PID numbers. I think the following messages may show instances of it: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg01188.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg01894.html http://sour