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

[Ivan K. <mi...@ka...>]

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,
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