This relates to a bug in my copy of cygwin, which jams when the PID goes over about 36800. With a script, this can easily happen in less than 10 minutes, like during a build.
How high can your PID go before you jam cygwin? You will have to reboot to use cygwin after jamming it. Please run this script until your cygwin jams, and report the highest PID found: #! /bin/sh i=1 # 1 Infinite Loop a script called "crashme" while test $i != 0 do echo "$i" /usr/bin/ps -afl | grep PID # header row /usr/bin/ps -afl | grep ps #PID value i=`expr $i + 1` done Why do I care to jam cygwin? Actually, I am incompetent to stop it, so I would like some help in preparing a bug report. I have a Dell laptop running Win2000, and updated cygwin yesterday. My related posts: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg01350.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg01393.html Here is when it crashes for me: (You can exit from the script with ^C occasionally when you am getting close... then run it some more. A rest break does not fix the problem in my experience...) $ ./crashme 1 UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND WESTMWJ 2936 2916 con 14:55:02 /usr/bin/ps 2 UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND WESTMWJ 2980 2916 con 14:55:03 /usr/bin/ps 3 UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND WESTMWJ 3016 2916 con 14:55:03 /usr/bin/ps 4 ... about 8 minutes pass... 930 UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND WESTMWJ 36768 2948 con 15:03:14 /usr/bin/ps 931 UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND WESTMWJ 36788 2948 con 15:03:15 /usr/bin/ps 932 2404 [main] ps 36848 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND 2461 [main] ps 36868 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information 933 2921 [main] ps 36824 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND 2643 [main] ps 36904 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information 934 2627 [main] ps 36796 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND 2684 [main] ps 36940 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information 935 2179 [main] ps 36892 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information ./crashme: grep: permission denied 2562 [main] ps 36932 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information ./crashme: grep: permission denied 936 2569 [main] ps 36980 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC0000005 reading system process information ./crashme: grep: permission denied ./crashme: /usr/bin/ps: permission denied 937 ./crashme: /usr/bin/ps: permission denied ./crashme: /usr/bin/ps: permission denied 938 ./crashme: /usr/bin/ps: permission denied ./crashme: Cannot fork: Permission denied $ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
