Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it with 1.5.20 and 1.5.21s 20060718. But Alas no better luck. Any Idea if this is Cygwin or Perl?
Thanks Bruce D. From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:15:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Perl failure References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com Larry Hall wrote: >It may make more sense to move forward and see if the problem still >exists in a snapshot version - <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>. >-- >Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com >RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX >Holliston, MA 01746 >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes >>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:06 AM >>To: cygwin@cygwin.com >>Subject: Re: Perl failure >> Bruce Dobrin wrote: >>>Hi, I stripped down the code to a small testable bit. The problem seems to >>>occur when I reach 256 forks on a cygwin1.5.18 or 19 but not on my >>>cygwin1.5.5. win2k system. The original code give the forked process >>>time to finish, but it still looks like it eats it after about 256 >>>iterations ( it actually failed between 259 and 252 iterations, but >>>it's pretty complicated so I'm not sure what else was happening). >>>Here is my test code: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp> cat test8.pl ################ #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $pid; foreach my $incr (`seq 1 1 800`) { unless (defined ($pid = fork)) { die " cannot fork $!"; } unless ($pid) { print " the sequence is $incr \n"; exit; } print "pid is $pid\n"; } ############### >>>The error here is : >>>cannot fork Resource temporarily unavailable at ./test8.pl line 11. >>>panic: MUTEX_LOCK (45) [op.c:354]. >>>On cygwin1.5.5 it finishes successfully. I'm not sure if there is >>>anything else I can try, I'm looking around for some other machines >>>with older cygwins on them to establish what version it stopped working >>>in. -- 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/