Re: I cannot run zsh: child state waiting for longjmp

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

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Peter Stephenson wrote:

Greetings, Peter & Cesar,

> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:33:56 -0500
> Cesar Romani <cesar.romani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I built zsh-4.3.10 on MSYS on Win XP.
> > It's working fine but Whenever I set path to whatever value, let's
> > say: path=(. /usr/local/bin /mingw/bin /bin)
> >
> > and run whatever command, let's say ls, I get:
> >
> > --------------------
> > $ path=(. /usr/local/bin /mingw/bin /bin)
> > $ ls
> >        0 [main] zsh 1556 sync_with_child: child 444(0x6AC) died before
> > initialization with status code 0xC0000135
> >    17380 [main] zsh 1556 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for
> > longjmp
> > zsh: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
> > --------------------
>
> I don't think we've ever attempted to support MSYS, and I'm guessing it's
> not a lot like standard Unix, so we'd need someone with some fairly
> detailed knowledge of it to volunteer to do so.  (Probably this only
> touches the system level interaction, so detailed knowledge of zsh wouldn't
> be so important.)  Unfortunately recent experience suggests that's highly
> unlikely.

Unfortunately, I'm seeing this same kind of symptom under Cygwin (1.7.5)
when I run 'make check'.  Several of the tests generate something similar
to the above while others just plain hang and I have to kill the
subshells in order for it to continue.  I'm not sure how much of this is
Cygwin and how much of it is zsh.  I'll attempt to debug it but I don't
have the time right now.

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