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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Failure with fork()
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130627170053.GK2378@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMCbSMo3KvXtbA-yOQOu_zXwyBX2fq+5mjmyduOYh+ZLeKORDg@mail.gmail.com>

On Jun 27 13:34, Arjen Markus wrote:
> According to the original thread it has to do with handling the stack.
> The small program is
> meant to show that there is a discrepancy between the way Cygwin
> handles this versus
> the way Linux does that - something to do with accessing more memory
> pages than expected,
> but this is not an area I am familiar with ;).
> 
> > It dies after somewhat below 500 forks and I think I found the reason.
> > Stay tuned.
> >
> 
> I will. It would be great if this can be solved.

Should be fixed in CVS.  Thanks for the report.


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-27 10:49 Arjen Markus
2013-06-27 11:27 ` Ryan Johnson
2013-06-27 11:29   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-27 12:19     ` Arjen Markus
2013-06-27 17:01       ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2013-06-27 17:03       ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-27 18:58 Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-27 19:01 ` marco atzeri
2013-06-27 19:45   ` Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-27 20:17     ` Achim Gratz
2013-06-27 20:33     ` gmt
2013-06-27 19:13 ` Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-27 19:15   ` marco atzeri
2013-06-27 20:43     ` Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-27 20:47       ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-27 20:48       ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2013-06-27 20:56         ` Thrall, Bryan
2013-06-28  1:28           ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2013-06-27 20:55       ` Peter Rosin
2013-06-27 21:52       ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-06-27 21:58         ` Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-27 21:59           ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-06-28  9:19             ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-28  7:55 Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-28  7:59 ` marco atzeri
2013-06-28  8:52   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-28 10:16     ` gmt
2013-06-28 10:20       ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-28 19:05         ` Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-28  8:42 ` Alan W. Irwin
2013-06-28  9:40 ` gmt

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