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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:02:52 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ViewCVS problems
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:59:43PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>>   File "/usr/local/viewcvs-0.9.2/lib/popen.py", line 33, in popen
>>     pid = os.fork()
>> OSError: [Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable
>> --
>>
>> Since it's thrown on os.fork(), I suspect cygwin is the culprit, but
>> that's just my gut feeling.
>
>There have been some changes in the fork-semantics (?)

 From the Cygwin changelog, the only changes I see which mention "fork" are
in mmap and pthread.  It doesn't seem likely that either would be responsible
for this problem.

cgf

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