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Re: fork problem
- From: Wayne Willcox <wayne at reliant dot immure dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:21:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: fork problem
- References: <m3zmj0m1ui.fsf@adboyd.com>
- Reply-to: Wayne Willcox <wayne at reliant dot immure dot com>
Out of resources on your system?
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:19:49PM -0400, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
> Since yesterday, (and, _of course_, I vehemently deny changing anything in my
> system), I've been plagued with
>
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> and an unadorned bash prompt.
>
> If I type exit:
>
> Sometimes it continues on to show my regular bash prompt, which leads me to
> think that some call in my .profile failed.
>
> Sometimes, though, typing exit actually exits.
>
> Sometimes, if I just wait, the startup continues and my expected prompt shows
> up.
>
> What would cause a fork to be temporarily unavailable?
>
> Dave
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