MW> In XEmacs 21.4 (patch 0) "Solid Vapor" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) of Mon Apr 16 2001 on jena MW> configured using `configure --prefix=/export/home/marcow/usr/local --site-includes=/export/home/marcow/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/export/home/marcow/usr/local/lib --with-gtk=no --error-checking=none --debug=no' MW> I did see the following a couple of times now with the 21.2.beta's and MW> 21.4.0. I don't know what causes it but but it looks like XEmacs has MW> sometimes problems with the fork(). It's not that often, it starts MW> maybe after around 1000 forks (wild guess, vm starts an external MW> program every 2 minutes) and than persists. MW> Has somebody an idea where to start looking?? Ok, the error message is a little bit misleading:-( I was running out of (virtual) memory:-( A nice Java app had eaten all my memory:-( The following patch will at least give the correct error message for the failing fork(). It looks a little bit complicated. Maybe somebody with a little bit deeper understanding of this proc code could move the error check (pid < 0) right next to the fork?? Thanks, -- Marco --------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff -u xemacs-21.4.0/src/callproc.c~ xemacs-21.4.0/src/callproc.c --- xemacs-21.4.0/src/callproc.c~ Thu Apr 12 11:23:27 2001 +++ xemacs-21.4.0/src/callproc.c Wed Apr 18 13:26:42 2001 ＠＠ -189,6 +189,9 ＠＠ int bufsize = 16384; int speccount = specpdl_depth (); struct gcpro gcpro1, gcpro2, gcpro3; +#ifndef ORIGINAL /* MARCO */ + int save_errno_fork; +#endif /* MARCO */ char **new_argv = alloca_array (char *, max (2, nargs - 2)); /* File to use for stderr in the child. ＠＠ -391,6 +394,13 ＠＠ #else /* not WIN32_NATIVE */ pid = fork (); +#ifndef ORIGINAL /* MARCO */ + if (pid < 0) + { + save_errno_fork = errno; + } +#endif /* MARCO */ + if (pid == 0) { if (fd[0] >= 0) ＠＠ -429,7 +439,11 ＠＠ int save_errno = errno; if (fd[0] >= 0) close (fd[0]); +#ifdef ORIGINAL /* MARCO */ errno = save_errno; +#else + errno = save_errno_fork; +#endif /* MARCO */ report_file_error ("Doing fork", Qnil); } #endif --