After running a windows update, which installed some 12 critical patches for windows 2000, and 4 optional ones, the gdb/cygpath/others crash has disappeared.
example of the problem: C:\cygwin>cygpath 28 [main] ? 2608 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win3 2 error 487 c:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe (2608): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x616A0000 , RegionSize 0x1AE0000, State 0x10000 So there does appear to be some combination of windows 2000 settings that hose the february snapshots, but current from microsoft as of 2/27/2004 seems to fix them. There was no difference (or than system time and hard drive free space) between a cygcheck -s -v -r from the broken system and the working system. This is for the archives, mostly. -Richard Campbell. -- 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/