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Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable


On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:01:33AM -0700, David Arnstein wrote:
>Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window 
>running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash:
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>10 [main] bash 1880 pinfo::wait: Couldn't create pipe tracker for pid 3768,  Win32 error 231
>bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------

error 231 is ERROR_PIPE_BUSY -- that's a very strange error to be coming
from the simple creation of an annonymous pipe.

I've created a new snapshot which may work around this problem by trying
again when this error is presented.  Could you give it a try?

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

cgf

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