Re: Cygwin fork error

2025-04-12 Thread Siva kumar via Cygwin
This issue was resolved after a pc restart, thanx. On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 at 09:07, Siva kumar wrote: > Hi all, > My Cygwin was working perfectly until yesterday. I installed Python 3.13 > and pip and Ansible through Win powershell. I think this corrupted cygwin. > Now Cygwin is giving fork errors

Re: Cygwin fork performance followup

2021-02-04 Thread Eliot Moss
On 2/4/2021 9:29 AM, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote: > Hi all, > > I managed to improve my Cygwin VM's performance significantly using a > variety of methods. > > If anyone else is experiencing troubles, seeing what I changed at > https://www.hamishmb.com/blog/improving-cygwins-performanc

Re: Cygwin fork problem: abort: can't commit memory for stack

2012-12-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/12/2012 5:23 AM, Techie Help wrote: Hi, As suggested by Marco, I stripped the PATH to bare minimum and then it started building. But slowly slowly, one at a time, I started adding more paths to path variable and finally I have restored it back to old one but its now building without any

Re: Cygwin fork problem: abort: can't commit memory for stack

2012-12-03 Thread Techie Help
Hi, As suggested by Marco, I stripped the PATH to bare minimum and then it started building. But slowly  slowly, one at a time, I started adding more paths to path variable and finally I have restored it back to old one but its now building without any problem. So, I am not sure what happened.

Re: Cygwin fork problem: abort: can't commit memory for stack

2012-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:32:38AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: >On 11/30/2012 5:24 PM, Techie Help wrote: >> I have set up a new PC and installed cygwin on it. >> Its windows 7 pro. >> >> Whenever I try to build our application on it, I get the following error: >> >> 0 [main] sh 3472 child_info_fo

Re: Cygwin fork problem: abort: can't commit memory for stack

2012-12-01 Thread marco atzeri
On 11/30/2012 5:24 PM, Techie Help wrote: I have set up a new PC and installed cygwin on it. Its windows 7 pro. Whenever I try to build our application on it, I get the following error: 0 [main] sh 3472 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487 /b

Re: Cygwin fork problem: abort: can't commit memory for stack

2012-11-30 Thread Massi
Very same problem, already discussed in another thead or two. I will also be grateful if this could be fixed. Massi 2012/11/30 Techie Help : > I have set up a new PC and installed cygwin on it. > Its windows 7 pro. > > Whenever I try to build our application on it, I get the following error: > >

RE: cygwin/fork slowness due to UNCs in PATH

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01 February 2007 16:54, Song, Conrad W wrote: > it turns out that > I had added UNC (\\ style windows) paths to my system PATH environment > variable.  The removal of these (maybe slow network drives) from the PATH > (or disconnection from the network) solved the problem for me.  Perhaps > furt

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Eric Blake
> But Cygwin's should work fine, and if it means saving a bazillion 1-byte > syscalls then I think bash should be patched to remove this sillyness > ASAP. I get the hint! Look for a new release of bash in the near future; and once I get the cygport build going, I will also try to get the bash-3.2

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:07:49PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Christopher Faylor >> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 1:01 PM >> Subject: Re: cygwin fork() >> >> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:57:10PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> >On 01 September 200

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread mwoehlke
Brian Dessent wrote: "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: AFAIK, Cygwin's lseek should handle seeking on text streams. DJ implemented that years ago. Last I looked, which was admittedly also years ago, it was "#if 0"'ed out, with a comment to the effect of "Nobody has any business seeking around in text

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Brian Dessent
"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > > AFAIK, Cygwin's lseek should handle seeking on text streams. > > DJ implemented that years ago. > > Last I looked, which was admittedly also years ago, it was "#if 0"'ed out, > with a comment to the effect of "Nobody has any business seeking around in > text files.

RE: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Christopher Faylor > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 1:01 PM > Subject: Re: cygwin fork() > > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:57:10PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >On 01 September 2006 18:47, clayne wrote: > >>I found the real culprit, which I had also ifdef'

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:57:10PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 01 September 2006 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I found the real culprit, which I had also ifdef'd out because it looked >>bogus and crufty: >> >>/* Return 1 if a seek on FD will succeed. */ >>#ifndef __CYGWIN__ >># define fd_is_se

RE: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01 September 2006 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found the real culprit, which I had also ifdef'd out because it looked > bogus and crufty: > > /* Return 1 if a seek on FD will succeed. */ > #ifndef __CYGWIN__ > # define fd_is_seekable(fd) (lseek ((fd), 0L, SEEK_CUR) >= 0) > #else > #

bash problems ? (was Re: cygwin fork())

2006-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'm just changing the subject so that Eric will, with luck, notice and comment on what's going on here. cgf On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:47:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:24:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >In regards to setting the fd to textmode as a way

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:24:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >In regards to setting the fd to textmode as a way of stripping CRs. > >Only problem is that it's making 213,110 syscalls for a 213k libtool > >script. That cannot be an efficient way to remove CRs from input. > > Opening a fil

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:04:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:34:15AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> BTW: >> I started up filemon to watch what was going on from it's standpoint, and it >> shows a huge number of READs on libtool, all SUCCESS, but the offset is

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:04:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've since removed the setmode() calls within a bash build and am testing now. > > UPDATE: > SOLVED. > > Filemon now shows bash reading in 8k chunks. There is now no 3 second delay on > reading the rest of the bash script (which

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:34:15AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW: > I started up filemon to watch what was going on from it's standpoint, and it > shows a huge number of READs on libtool, all SUCCESS, but the offset is always > 1 higher than previous, with a length of 1. Like it's literally

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:37:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:33:47AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >> While Cygwin is an *emulation* layer, and emulation is inherently > >> slower than straight execution, there ar

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:09:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:54:03AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >It's definitely none of those as I don't run any firewall or antivirus > > >software whatsoever on this box. Windows 2003 Server, minimal set of > > >service

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:54:03AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >It's definitely none of those as I don't run any firewall or antivirus > >software whatsoever on this box. Windows 2003 Server, minimal set of > >services. The machine literally sits at 0% CPU unless I'm using it. > > Try using

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:37:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:33:47AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> While Cygwin is an *emulation* layer, and emulation is inherently slower >> than straight execution, there are other potential reasons for the >> slowness. Check y

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 08:37:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1157123322 + echo blah1 > 1157123322 blah1 > <3 seconds of doing absolutely nothing here> > 1157123325 + test -z '' > 1157123325 + echo blah2 > 1157123325 blah2 I just also copied the same libtool to 3 different hard drives, o

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:33:47AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: > While Cygwin is an *emulation* layer, and emulation is inherently slower > than straight execution, there are other potential reasons for the > slowness. Check your anti-virus and firewall software settings. If > possible, exclude

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, clayne wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > > On 01 September 2006 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath, > > > terribly slow for some reason? > > > > Some reason == "lack

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, clayne wrote: > Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath, > terribly slow for some reason? While building projects using libtool > (which using heavy sh, hence fork() calls) I regularly have to fire off > 'make -j16's just to get around waiting ages wh

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > On 01 September 2006 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath, > > terribly slow for some reason? > > Some reason == "lack of O/S support". Basically, this is what I'm

RE: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01 September 2006 11:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>> Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath, >>> terribly slow for some reason? >> >> Some reason == "lack of O/S support". > > Yes I can understand that

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread clayne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > > Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath, > > terribly slow for some reason? > > Some reason == "lack of O/S support". Yes I can understand that. I'm assuming there is some CreateProcess() magic happening

RE: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01 September 2006 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath, > terribly slow for some reason? Some reason == "lack of O/S support". cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-08 Thread Linda Walsh
Brian Dessent wrote: Linda W wrote: Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know. activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-( This smells like total FUD. This person that admittedly

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Linda W wrote: > A problem I reported in trying to install "File::BOM" (module to handle > files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February > is still a problem. I bounc

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Linda W wrote: > Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know. > activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin > handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-( This smells like total FUD. This person that admittedly does not use Cygwin nor obvi

Re: Cygwin fork implementation

2006-02-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sudhahar on 2/6/2006 5:33 AM: > Hi, >In Cygwin fork code the statement > > int res = setjmp (grouped.ch.jmp); > if (res) > res = fork_child (grouped.ch.parent, grouped.first_dll, > grouped.load_dlls); > else > res = fork_

Re: Cygwin fork failure

2005-11-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/23/2005, David Svoboda wrote: My best guess is that this bug was introduced by a new version of cygwin, as it did not occur until I did a cygwin-update. But didn't you claim that switching back to an older version of Cygwin didn't help? It seems that the oldest cygwin I can get is 1.5

Re: Cygwin fork failure

2005-11-23 Thread David Svoboda
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2005 01:07 am, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David Svoboda wrote: I have built a C++ server program called 'analyzer'. But when I try to run it, it fails upon trying to execute a 'fork' command. Why? If runn

Re: Cygwin fork failure

2005-11-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2005 01:07 am, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David Svoboda wrote: I have built a C++ server program called 'analyzer'. But when I try to run it, it fails upon trying to execute a 'fork' command. Why? If running 'rebaseall' doesn't help (se

Re: Cygwin fork failure

2005-11-21 Thread svoboda
On Saturday 19 November 2005 01:07 am, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > David Svoboda wrote: > > I have built a C++ server program called 'analyzer'. But when I try to > > run it, it fails upon trying to execute a 'fork' command. Why? > > > > > >$ analyzer --KANTOO_LANGUAGE=toy -server-multiple -fo

Re: Cygwin fork failure

2005-11-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Svoboda wrote: I have built a C++ server program called 'analyzer'. But when I try to run it, it fails upon trying to execute a 'fork' command. Why? $ analyzer --KANTOO_LANGUAGE=toy -server-multiple -fork Analyzer 2.0 *** 5 [main] analyzer 1712 fhandler_disk_file::fixup_mmap_a

Re: cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...)

2002-01-02 Thread Jason Tishler
Chris, On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 10:22:37AM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: > FYI, Zope was broken under out-of-the-box Cygwin 1.3.6 because of the fork > issue. The rebase solution allows Zope to work again. > > Many thanks, You are very welcome! Thanks for taking the time to see if this solutio

Re: cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...)

2001-12-22 Thread Chris McDonough
y, December 21, 2001 7:51 AM Subject: Re: cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...) > Chris, > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:28:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:33:50AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >

Re: cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...)

2001-12-21 Thread Jason Tishler
Chris, On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:28:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:33:50AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >Your results are enough for me Jason - I'm happy to include this in > >setup in some form. > > Nice job, Jason. Thanks for following this through. You

RE: Cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...)

2001-12-19 Thread Norman Vine
Jason Tishler writes: > >I believe that I have found a rebase solution to the Cygwin fork() >problem that has been causing Cygwin Python some grief lately. I added >an offset option to the attached rebase tool. If I spread the DLLs out >by an extra 0x1, then the fork() problem seems to be mi

Re: cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...)

2001-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:33:50AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Your results are enough for me Jason - I'm happy to include this in >setup in some form. Nice job, Jason. Thanks for following this through. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Cygwin fork() rebase solution (was Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues ...)

2001-12-18 Thread Robert Collins
Your results are enough for me Jason - I'm happy to include this in setup in some form. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygw