From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13768 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2002 18:20:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13541 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 18:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO saturn.sun.com) (192.9.25.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 18:19:55 -0000 Received: from dm-usca19-13.red.iplanet.com (host-179-56-18-192.iplanet.com [192.18.56.179] (may be forged)) by saturn.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00812 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:19:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gopostal.red.iplanet.com (ms-usca15-01.red.iplanet.com [192.18.56.153]) by dm-usca19-13.red.iplanet.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2/IPLANET,v1.1) with ESMTP id g21IKD415636 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:20:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sun.com ([192.18.120.240]) by gopostal.red.iplanet.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GSB49500.G5F; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:19:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7FC60C.724BD8BD@sun.com> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:20:00 -0000 From: Kirk Erickson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" CC: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: Too many open files References: <4.3.1.2.20020226183254.0223f8e8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > At 06:28 PM 2/26/2002, Kirk Erickson wrote: > >I love cygwin. I've had no problems at home (running under XP), > >but I'm experiencing a problem reported earlier by Benoit Rochefort > > > >http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00791.html > > > >under Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2. > >I can reproduce by doing a > > > > find . -type l > > > >in my home directory. The find hangs, and even if I kill it, > >subsequent commands fail: > > > >[kirke@BAG HINTS]$ cat HINTS > >cat: HINTS: Too many open files > > > >I've attached cygcheck output. > > 386k 1998/02/26 C:\WINNT\cygwinb19.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > > "cygwinb19.dll" v0.0 ts=1998/2/25 2:22 > > Get rid of the DLL above. Never mix Cygwin DLL versions. I saw the same failure after removing this. Also, I scratch installed Windows 2000, and redid the Cygwin install from scratch (nothing but setup.exe). Its apparent that directory entries relative to my HOME directory are corrupt: [kirke@BAG .backup]$ ls -l big* ls: big-2002-0228-1555: No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 kirke Administ 547 Nov 9 2000 big-2001-0108-1137 -rw-r--r-- 1 kirke Administ 568 Jan 16 2001 big-2002-0212-1443 -rw-r--r-- 1 kirke Administ 532 Nov 1 2000 bigd-2001-0108-1137 -rw-r--r-- 1 kirke Administ 529 Jan 16 2001 bigd-2002-0212-1443 [kirke@BAG .backup]$ pwd /cygdrive/z/private/kirke/scripts/.backup This directory lives on a server managed by our IS group. I've requested they do a 'chkdsk /f' to clean up. I guess find is leaking descriptors when it encounters bad directory entries. kirk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/