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RE: WindowsXP - bash BUG
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: WindowsXP - bash BUG
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:38:33 -0400
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > Could you please keep your replies to cygwin-xfree list
> only, PLEASE.
>
> It would really be easier if the administrator of this
> mailling list can
> provide a 'reply-to: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com' in the
> headers of the
> mail this will save you a lot of trouble.
> Who is the administrator ?
Not me :-) Chris Faylor.
Anyway, regarding your WindowsXP. Just now I tested on a third Windows XP
Beta 2 Professionl machine. The X works fine. The problem you are seeing
is with bash. if you start xterm with -e /usr/bin/bash (using bash as a
shell).
The xterm crashed on me with the following error: This definitely a Cgwin
issue and Chris needs to look into it
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
(0x25A0000)
in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
(0x24C0000)
in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\xterm.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's
heap
(0x2450000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
HOWEVER, you can use xterm with sh, i.e. xterm -e /usr/bin/sh and it works
fine on Windows XP Professional, no heap errors.
Suhaib
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