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Re: cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex
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- Subject: Re: cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Chris Faylor)
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:20:51 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <3.0.32.19970727183116.00bb3dd0@nuancecom.com>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
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.
--
http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal
VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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