The fork() bomb is still a problem with 3.3.4 but it's "benign" under <=3.2.0 because a Ctrl-C reaps the call stack. Something changed significantly between how processes are spawned apparently. But the CAUSE of the fork() bomb was the combined use of CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 and this fragment in my .bashrc function command_not_found_handle() { cmd.exe /D /C "$@"; } It now reads:[ -z "${CYGWIN_NOWINPATH+X}" ] && is_exec cmd.exe && function command_not_found_handle() { cmd.exe /D /C "$@"; } On Friday, April 29, 2022, 09:20:14 PM EDT, matthew patton <patto...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Can you try the suggestions I made in my reply >https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-February/250790.html ? sorry, no. Even though I have Admin I am unable to override this. Please note that all previous versions of cygwin1.dll (<3.3.3) are not interfered with. Though if this is indeed Sentinel, it does seem to *sporadically* kill threads launched under strace regardless of cygwin DLL version all the way back to 3.1.7.
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