Re: Bug: Cygwin crashes when bash is called repeatedly from a .bat fi le

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:17:49PM -0700, craig.hayes@lmco.com wrote:
>Situation:
>
>I have a DOS script that has run reliably for over a year.  I had to
>add some functionality that DOS couldn't support, so I created Unix
>shell scripts to do the additional functions, then modified the DOS
>script to execute the Unix shell scripts by using bash.  An example of
>the addition to the DOS script would be: bash <Unix shell script name>
><arguments>
>
>
>Result:
>
>Everything works wonderfully for several hours, but then Cygwin
>crashes.  The DOS script can no longer call the Unix shell scripts.  I
>cannot start Cygwin from the desktop icon.  System message boxes appear
>saying something to the effect that the DLL cannot be initialized
>(sorry, I didn't write down the exact message).  Apparently some system
>resource is used up, but I couldn't identify what.  To recover I have
>to uninstall Cygwin and reboot my machine.
>
>
>Details:
>
>I was able to reproduce the problem with the script files which are
>attached to this email.
>
>I have included the bash stack dump.
>
>I installed Cygwin using the installation GUI and the following files
>which I have copied to my machine: cygwin-1_1_5-4.tar.gz
>bash-2_04-3.tar.gz

You're not running the newest version of cygwin.  You are running a
*test* version of cygwin.

Update your installation.

cgf

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