Re: zsh 4.3.0 dev 1 with cygwin1.dll 1.5.15

["Peter A. Castro" <doctor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, S. Cowles wrote:

> I don't have a clear perception which mailing list is the more appropriate for
> this question, so I've sent a version of this message to the cygwin users'
> mailing list and to the zsh users' list.  Any help would be appreciated.

This is really a Cygwin issue.  If you can wait, I'm building this version
right now and maybe I'll be able to give you a better answer as to what's
going on.

> The problem is that I have had no success running zsh 4.3.0 dev 1 on the last
> two releases of cygwin1.dll,
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 host 1.5.14(0.126/4/2) 2005-04-01 13:40 i686
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 host 1.5.15(0.127/4/2) 2005-04-18 12:20 i686
>
> The builds of zsh proceed with no undue problems, but test A05 fails.  The
> following is the message from running the cvs version of 4.3.0 dev 1 (pulled
> about 10h00 PDT, GMT +0700, 19 apr 2005) against cygwin1.dll
> 1.5.15(0.127/4/2):
>
> ./A05execution.ztst: starting.
> Test ./A05execution.ztst failed: bad status 1, expected 0 from:
>  path=($ZTST_testdir/command.tmp/dir1
>        $ZTST_testdir/command.tmp/dir2
>        .)
>  tstcmd
>  path=($storepath)
> Error output:
>      6 [main] zsh 2052 fork_parent: child 3084 died waiting for longjmp
> before initialization
> (eval):4: fork failed: interrupt
> Was testing: path (1)
> ./A05execution.ztst: test failed.
> 249108 [main] zsh 2052 fork_parent: child 3640 died waiting for longjmp
> before initialization
> ZTST_cleanup:2: fork failed: no such file or directory
>
>
> When I try to run this build of zsh, every call to a non-builtin resource
> results in a fork failure. I have asked the cygwin mailing list if there
> might be some user configurable resource that would fix this problem.  On the
> other hand, the cygwin release of zsh 4.2.4 does run under this latest
> release of cygwin1.dll. Before I jump in, I wondered if anyone had already
> run into this problem and had any pointers to causes.

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