pipe error depending on drive

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 6/7/2012 10:30 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a strange behavior of cygwin here. I have two machines with the
> nearly (*)he same configuration on machine A everything works good, on B I
> get the error
>
> 1 [main] sh 1884 sig_send: error sending signal -40 to pid 1884, pipe
>handle 0x768, Win32 error 6
> sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> depending on which drive I start a perl program which uses a pipe via
> IO::File->new("dosomething.pl |");

<http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures>

<snip>

> Two other issues are also strange  :
>
> First if I try to update machine A I get the warning that this is the
> first time that I setup version 1.7 (setup 2.774)

More than 1 installation on this machine?  Check 'cygcheck -srv' output.

> Second the /etc/fstab file seems to have no effect on the mountings on machine B
> Even if I delete this file I get the same settings

'/etc/fstab' is "additive".  Put additional mount points in this file.  The
ones you have are the defaults so they are not driven by this file.


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Larry

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