On 28 June 2010 19:34, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >>When running a couple of lengthy make-based builds in parallel, I >>eventually get error messages such as this: >> >> 3 [main] sh 4368 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessW failed, errno 2 >>/bin/sh: fork: No such file or directory >> >> 5 [main] make 5736 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessW failed, errno 2 >>make[2]: vfork: No such file or directory >> >>The errors aren't reproducible, i.e. when rerunning, one of the build >>fails elsewhere with the same sort of error. Hence I'm unable to >>provide a small testcase. >> >>It doesn't fail if I run just one build at a time, and it fails more >>quickly if I run more than two. I guess this suggests a >>synchronisation issue. >> >>This is on a 32-bit Windows XP. The issue didn't occur on 1.7.5 and >>before. I went back through previous snapshots to try to narrow to >>down the problem a little bit: 20100507 is fine, 20100518 is not. > > Hmm. That means that it is related to the change to use wide characters > for the current program name but I've reviewed the patch again and don't > see anything obvious. > > Could you try this on the latest snapshot when it shows up. I've added a > tad more debugging to the error message.
4 [main] sh 396 fork: child -1 - CreatProcessW failed for '\??\C:\bin\sh.exe', errno 2 /bin/sh: fork: No such file or directory > Also, if you could duplicate this under strace that would be very helpful. > Please send the strace to me at me at <myinitials> dot cx. I'll give that a go. Cheers, Andy -- 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