I can jam cygwin in 10 minutes in a 1000 instance loop- can you?

["Mike W." <mw487 at yahoo dot com>]

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
$


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