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

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

(Moved to zsh-workers.)

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:12:12 -0700 (PDT)
"Peter A. Castro" <doctor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Peter Stephenson 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
> >> --------------------
> 
> 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.

I'm not seeing any problems this basic with the latest zsh code on my setup
with Windows XP and a Cygwin from April (setup.exe claims it's 1.7.5-1).  I
am seeing failing tests with process substitutions hanging; we've had this
issue before and been back and forth between the two possible
implementations to try to fix it.  Apart from that, I don't think we're
going to get further within zsh without more detail of the failures:
relevant Cygwin changes / Windows versions / zsh configurations.

Here's a change for the MACHINES file.  I think the paragraph I've removed
is well out of date.

Index: MACHINES
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/MACHINES,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -p -u -r1.8 MACHINES
--- MACHINES	16 May 2009 12:13:00 -0000	1.8
+++ MACHINES	5 Aug 2010 12:02:31 -0000
@@ -46,10 +46,13 @@ Red Hat Inc.: Cygwin
 	`binmode'). There are various issues with Cygwin versions before
 	1.3.2 - you are adviced to update to the latest release.
 
-	Dynamic loading works as of cygwin-1.1.3 and binutils-20000722-1.
-	It was not tested for earlier versions. This does not imply
-	that every module will work. New completion and in
-	particular zsh/zftp and zsh/mathfunc are known to work.
+	Process substitution using <(...), >(...), =(...) may be
+	problematic.  Different versions of zsh and Cygwin have
+	a different mix of issues.
+
+	Problems handling subprocesses have been reported with Cygwin
+	1.7.5.  It is not currently known how the problems split between
+	Cygwin and zsh.
 
 	Some of the tests in the Test subdirectory are known to fail:
 	this is because the UNIX environment is not completely implemented.

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