From: Ryan Johnson <ryanjohn@ece.cmu.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF9385D.4070307@ece.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31061.1308136483@freon.franz.com>
On 15/06/2011 2:14 PM, Kevin Layer wrote:
> When running make, which spawns shell scripts from time to time, I see
> this:
> ../../version.sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
The list archives are full of discussions about this (did you search
them?). The short version is that Windows vista/7 makes it "difficult"
for cygwin to fork() processes reliably.
> If I run again, it works fine.
You're in fairly good shape, then. Be glad.
Ryan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 22:55 UTC|newest]
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2011-06-15 11:15 Kevin Layer
2011-06-15 22:55 ` Ryan Johnson [this message]
2011-06-16 5:41 ` Christopher Faylor
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