Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:11:46 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <110168055460.20030829131146@familiehaase.de> To: Andrew DeFaria CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Odd perl 5.8.0 error In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello Andrew, > All of a sudden a Perl script of mine that has been working fine for a > long time stopped working. I've traced it down to the following line in > Perl: > my $nbr_msgs = `grep -ce "^From " "$returned_dir/$sender"`; > Seems innocent enough right? Here's the error message: > C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** couldn't release memory 0x9D4000(1032192) > for > 'C:\Cygwin\lib\perl5\5.8.0\cygwin-multi-64int\auto\Fcntl\Fcntl.dll' > alignment, Win32 error 487 > 13 [main] perl 1040 sync_with_child: child 5780(0x648) died before > initialization with status code 0x1 > I searched winerror.h to find; > #define ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS 487L > Any ideas? Looks like a rebase issue, though I thought that only Win95/98/ME are affected by this. Does the failure happens sporadically or on regular basis now? You don't have updated perl or cygwin before this happend the first time? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/