Perl failure

2006-07-12 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi, I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 to XP sp3 and cyg1.5.19 (to be fare, I also cleaned up the perl code a bit). The script checks versioning and build info on about 600+ windows systems.

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on > cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 to > XP sp3 and cyg1.5.19 (to be fare, I also cleaned up the perl code a > bit). T

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:53:09AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on > > cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 t

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Bruce Dobrin
runs great until it craps out after 1.5 hours. I hope the above helps Thanks Bruce D. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 8:53 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl failure On Wed, Jul 12

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Dobrin
ing around for some other machines with older cygwins on them to establish what version it stopped working in. Thanks for your time Bruce D. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:06 AM To

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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 abou

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 17:45, 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 l

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-19 Thread Bruce Dobrin
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)" To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:15:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Perl failure Reference

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> 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? I'm betting on cygwin. I hope to look more into this soon. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 19 16:30, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > 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? > > I'm betting on cygwin. I hope to look more into this soon. Did anybody of you bother to read my repl

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-20 Thread Bruce Dobrin
s list of active children? Thanks Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:26 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl failure On Jul 19 16:30, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > Thanks f

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:08:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 18 17:45, 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 origin

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-20 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Christopher Faylor skrev: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:08:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Jul 18 17:45, 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 >>> cygwin

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 20 12:28, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > This seems to indicate what is going on (I'd suspected something like > this) and had noticed that the addition of waitpid (or wait) did solve > this problem in the test case. Unfortunately, for me, the way I'm > using fork is to spawn 5 to 10 concurrent rs