I can jam cygwin in 10 minutes in a 1000 instance loop- can you?

Sat Mar 22 23:43:00 GMT 2003

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:15:28PM -0800, Mike W. wrote:
>>>This relates to a bug in my copy of cygwin, which jams when the PID
>>goes over about 36800. With a script, this can easily happen in less
>>than 10 minutes, like during a build.
>>>>How high can your PID go before you jam cygwin? You will have to
>>reboot to use cygwin after jamming it.
>>> The PIDs don't grow monotonically. They are reused by design (Windows,
> so does Cygwin). I'm running your script for over 45 minutes now
> (>15000 iterations). I don't get any PID >= 5000.
>> I assume something's wrong with your box.
>> Corinna

I ran it for more than 10000 iterations and never got a pid over 3700.
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