>>Bob, I don't know the source of your trouble, but as a workaround consider
>>running grep -r instead of find | xargs grep. In many cases it's equivalent
>>or almost as good, and it probably will avoid all of the forking that's
>>causing trouble for you. A.
In the case of talking about the memor
> I've been doing "find | xargs grep" types of things
Bob, I don't know the source of your trouble, but as a workaround consider
running grep -r instead of find | xargs grep. In many cases it's equivalent
or almost as good, and it probably will avoid all of the forking that's
causing trouble for
>I wish that fork would fail with errno set, so that bash's error message
>is not so confusing; but that is besides the point. Running out of memory
>during forks is not a bug in bash, find, or xargs, but a limitation of
>Windows. If anyone has ideas on how to reduce the frequency of fork
>fail
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According to bob knob on 3/14/2006 3:28 PM:
>
> I've been doing "find | xargs grep" types of things
> for a long time with no problem, but I just started
> working at a new job with a new computer onto which
> I've downloaded the latest Cygwin.
Most
> Hi:
>
> (tried posting this to the comp.windows.cygwin usenet group
> and got no response, so)
>
There's a comp.windows.cygwin USENET group? When did that happen?
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:28:40PM -0800, bob knob wrote:
>Any ideas why this started happening to me?
Antivirus?
cgf
>
> 5 [main] bash 4800
>C:\Programs\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error -
>fork: can't reserve memory for stack 0x23E890 - 0
>x24, Win32 error 487
> 2520 [main] ba
Hi:
(tried posting this to the comp.windows.cygwin usenet
group and got no response, so)
I've been doing "find | xargs grep" types of things
for a long time with no problem, but I just started
working at a new job with a new computer onto which
I've downloaded the latest Cygwin.
I like gre
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