Cygwin memory problems on Windows XP

Wed Sep 5 08:02:00 GMT 2001

At 10:55 AM 9/5/2001, DeVerl Stokes wrote:
>Some of the more recently updated Cygwin programs are failing
>on Windows XP (Build 2526) with memory errors. The most recent
>version of lynx was the first occurrence of this and the only
>occurrence until I updated bash to 2.05-7. Then many others
>started to exhibit this failure. The id program, for instance
>generates the following output:
>>----------------
>C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's
>heap (0x9B0000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
>----------------
>NOTE: Win32 error 487 = Attempt to access invalid address.
>>>This is the same error message that lynx generated.
>>These same programs appear to work fine on Win9x, WinNT 4.0,
>and Win2K.
>>Has anyone else seen these problems?

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