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Prefork Error 161
- From: Ian Pellew <ipellew at yahoo dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:08:46 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Prefork Error 161
- Reply-to: Ian Pellew <ipellew at yahoo dot com>
After having Cywin on my systems for many years with no problems and in more recent years with Xampp, I now have a problem.
I think my Cygwin setup is hitting some limit within the Cygwin dll.
Problem when starting an up to date cygwin session on XP:-
<<-EOF
? 1 [main] bash 5372 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161
? 1 [main] bash 5760 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161
? 1 [main] bash 4428 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161
This is /etc/profile
This is ~/.bash_profile
Xp man ls
????? 3 [main] sh 3952 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161
(END)
EOF
I am prity sure its not one of the very recently added Php apps, like Wordpress, as my bash.exe also hits the same problem with a simple `man ls` which I assume also performs a fork to present stdout.
If I do a fresh rebuild - is there someway to adjust the inbuilt limits?
.
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