On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:15:28PM -0800, Mike W. wrote: > 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.
The PIDs don't grow monotonically. They are reused by design (Windows, so does Cygwin). I'm running your script for over 45 minutes now (>15000 iterations). I don't get any PID >= 5000. I assume something's wrong with your box. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
