cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex

cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex

[JP Shipherd]

I recently had to reinstall NT.  It now resides on the D drive and the gnu
tools continue to reside on the C drive.  Ever since then, when doing makes
I often get:

cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex

It then seems to continue on quite nicely.  However, a little system memory
seems to be siphoned off after each of these messages which NT never
manages to get back, meaning I need to reboot periodically.

Anyone know what causes this?

Thanks,
--jp

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Re: cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex

[Chris Faylor]

In article < 3.0.32.19970727183116.00bb3dd0@nuancecom.com >,
JP Shipherd  <jp@nuancecom.com> wrote:
>I recently had to reinstall NT.  It now resides on the D drive and the gnu
>tools continue to reside on the C drive.  Ever since then, when doing makes
>I often get:
>
>cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex
>
>It then seems to continue on quite nicely.  However, a little system memory
>seems to be siphoned off after each of these messages which NT never
>manages to get back, meaning I need to reboot periodically.
>
>Anyone know what causes this?

I think there is a race of some kind in cygwin.dll which manifests as
the inability to create a mutex which is used to lock accesses to the
process table.

I have not had any problems like this since switching to Sergey's cygwin.dll:

	http://www.lexa.ru/sos

And, there are all sorts of other benefits to switch, too.
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