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| author | Alexey Sokolov <sokolov@google.com> | 2016-03-04 22:42:15 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2016-03-05 00:02:35 +0300 |
| commit | bf45e12fb627ecc46f4758dbb1baddff775d4381 (patch) | |
| tree | 9daa57f8bec60c1a26e66ee58feea1ef6b27b66a /winsup/doc/faq-using.xml | |
| parent | 2cd76694e1d7021759cca8f940092186530dfdae (diff) | |
Mention 64-bit Cygwin as another remedy for fork() failures.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/faq-using.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml index ae72145ab..f6d4b8e6a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml @@ -1394,13 +1394,15 @@ such as virtual memory paging and file caching.</para> <para><itemizedlist> <listitem>Restart whatever process is trying (and failing) to use <literal>fork()</literal>. Sometimes Windows sets up a process - environment that is even more hostile to fork() than usual.</listitem> + environment that is even more hostile to <literal>fork()</literal> than usual.</listitem> <listitem>Ensure that you have eliminated (not just disabled) all software on the <xref linkend="faq.using.bloda"/>. </listitem> <listitem>Read the 'rebase' package README in <literal>/usr/share/doc/rebase/</literal>, and follow the instructions there to run 'rebaseall'.</listitem> + <listitem>Switch from 32-bit Cygwin to 64-bit Cygwin, if your OS and CPU support that. + With the bigger address space <literal>fork()</literal> is less likely to fail.</listitem> </itemizedlist></para> <para>Please note that installing new packages or updating existing ones undoes the effects of rebaseall and often causes fork() failures |