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Re: Zsh observations


On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:59:10AM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>>
>> 1. zsh doesn't like it if ...\cygwin\bin is not in the Windows
>> path.  If I
>> start up zsh without this, it works as long as the current directory is
>> /usr/bin.  If I then do
>> 	PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
>> 	export PATH
>> 	cd $HOME
>> (either on the command line, or in /etc/zprofile), any external command I
>> run gives:
>> 	      0 [main] zsh 2432 sync_with_child: child 2356(0x230)
>> died before
>> initialization with status code 0x80
>> 	   1288 [main] zsh 2432 sync_with_child: *** child state
>> waiting for longjmp
>> /home/mscha/.zshrc:150: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>
>Well ... it does work if you start cmd.exe (I am on NT), and then run zsh as
>e.g. \cygwin\bin\zsh. It does not work if you define shortcut and start zsh
>via shortcut. Both with current snapshot.
>
>I am pretty sure it worked at some point (because I did have shortcut to
>zsh). I cannot recall any changes in zsh that could result in this problem,
>but who knows.

I can't get it to fail in this fashion.  I've taken x:\cygwin\bin from my path.
It was being added in my zshenv file anyway.  It works just fine.

cgf

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