[Mingw-msys] Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 6

[Eduardo D. F. <ed...@ig...>]

Hi. 
There is an interaction between MSys shell (sh.exe, 
http://mingw.sourceforge.net/msys.shtml) and iSafer firewall 
(http://winsockfirewall.sourceforge.net/). 
It seems that after iSafer is started (pressing button start) sh.exe reports 
the following (4 prompt lines of cmd): 

C:\msys\1.0\bin>sh 
sh-2.04$ exit 
exit 

C:\msys\1.0\bin>sh 
sh-2.04$ exit 
exit 

C:\msys\1.0\bin>sh 
AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B0000, RegionSize 0x460000, State 
0x10000 
C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 
error 6 

C:\msys\1.0\bin>sh 

After the 2nd prompt and before the 3rd prompt I started iSafer Firewall. It 
is with security level high with rules for some programs (freevcs.exe, 
gaim.exe, firefox.exe, thunderbird.exe, delphi32.exe, pgadmin3.exe and 
netmsvnt.exe). 

Even after iSafer is stopped or closed sh.exe does not work. 

I am using Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2. 
The computer is AMD Athlon, 945MHz, 504 MB RAM. 


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