Re: [Mingw-users] fork problem on Windows XP 64 bit

[Peter R. <p.r...@sh...>]

On 15/03/11 13:25, Ivan Kanis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have seen this problem on msys git and posted on their mailing list. I
> am bringing it here as I feel it's more appropriate.
>
> I have installed mingw with mingw-get-inst-20110313.exe
>
> When if I run the shell then rm, I get the following error:
>
> C:\MinGW-2011\msys\1.0\bin>sh
> sh-3.1$ rm
> C:\MinGW-2011\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: *** fork: can't reserve memory
>    for stack 0x4A0000 - 0x6A0000, Win32 error 0
>        0 [main] sh 2232 sync_with_child: child 2264(0x2AC)
>          died before initialization with status code 0x1
>      128 [main] sh 2232 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp
> sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> Johannes Schindelin from msys git suggested I run the following command
>
> rebase -b 0x67000000 msys-1.0.dll
>
> It didn't work. I upgraded from SP1 to SP2 and it didn't change
> anything.
>
> I had a little look at the code in mingwrt on CVS. I grepped around for
> a function called fork and I was surprised that it didn't exist.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated!
>
> Kind regards,

Have a look at http://www.mingw.org, in particular, the bit that says:

"*MinGW* compilers provide access to the functionality of the Microsoft 
C runtime and some language-specific runtimes. *MinGW*, being 
Minimalist, *does not, and never will, attempt to provide a POSIX 
runtime environment for POSIX application deployment on MS-Windows*. If 
you want POSIX application deployment on this platform, please consider 
Cygwin <http://www.cygwin.com> instead."

P.