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From: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: dmake 3.7 bug: loses child on 3b1
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.132925.18474@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 13:29:25 GMT
References: <1362@kosman.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo
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In article <1362@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>It goes okay for several modules, and then at a certain point, it
>reports "Error -- lost a child" and dies.  If I repeat the command,
>one additional source is compiled, and dmake dies in the same way
>on the second.

I tried to respond to you by mail but it bounced for some reason.  The error
message is printed from the sys_errlist table.  I currently don't have a fix
for this situation, and can't reproduce it on anything that I have tried.

-dennis
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