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On 1/26/2012 1:07 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> marco atzeri sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 3:49 AM
>> my 2c$ : As rebaseall is almost mandatory on W7/64 and we are always
>> suggesting it to anyone with fork problem,
>
> My box was upgraded from XP Pro to W7 a couple of months ago.  At the
> beginning I was getting fork errors all the time when running scripts.
> It eventually went away (mostly*), though I don't remember whether it
> was as a result of something that knowingly did I did.
>
> (* It is now rare enough to not be a problem in practice.  I'll kill
> the script and start over.)
>
> The old guidance was that one shouldn't rebase unless one is told to.
> My question is whether that has changed.  Is it now, "rebase if you
> have W7"?

Hi Barry,
my guidance is rebasesall if you have fork errors.

My personal experience is that W7/64 is much more prone to
such issue than previous XP/32

>
> --------
>
> For the record, after the switch from XP to W7 I had another problem.
> I had the windows and system32 directories at the end of my path.  When
> running scripts, bash could sometimes miss /bin/sort and end up using
> Windows' sort.  It was intermittant and did not always happen at the
> same place in the script.  Bizzarre!

never seen such problem, but I am personally running only
cygwin snapshots in these days.

>
> I fixed it by taking windows and system32 out of my path.
>
> No action requested, but I thought I'd mention it as a datum in case
> it comes up again for someone else.
>
> - Barry

Regards
Marco



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