On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 04:13:14PM +0000, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I can't find a similar problem reported earlier, so please excuse the question
>if it looks familiar.
>
>We have a software package that installs like a miniature CYGWIN deployment
>(basically, only cygwin1.dll and just a few other libraries in /bin
>along with cygrunsrv.exe), and there are no shells.
>
>cygrunsrv.exe is used to register and launch a Windows service with a binary
>located under "/opt/..." (which is a ported UNIX server). The binary is
>started
>just fine, but when it tries to fork(), it gets the error 0xC0000135 (w/
>errno=11,
>EAGAIN). I traced it down to the fact that before fork() there is chdir("/")
>in
>that server binary. Can it be the reason for the failed fork() that it can no
>longer
>find cygwin1.dll? Unfortunately, I can't extend Windows PATH to include the
>CYGWIN /bin directory (because the cygrunsrv runs under an unmanaged service
>account). Is there any other fix?
Cygwin doesn't rely on the PATH environment variable to find the binary
being forked. It would be disastrous if it did.
cgf
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