[Ur] cygwin, pthread_attr_init failed

[Sergey Mironov]

I've prepared the patch containing the hack from my previous letter.

    https://github.com/grwlf/uru/blob/master/urweb/1_of_1_CYGWIN_HACK__disable_stack_size_option.patch

2013/10/14 Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com>:
> Hi. I've tried to build apps under cygwin and faced pthread issue. The
> application issued the following error:
>
> $ ./AppMM.exe
> Database connection initialized.
> Unlimited retry during init: Couldn't allocate new heap chunk contiguously; incr
> Unlimited retry during init: Couldn't allocate new heap chunk contiguously; incr
> Unlimited retry during init: Couldn't allocate new heap chunk contiguously; incr
> Listening on port 8080....
> Database connection initialized.
> Error creating worker thread #0
>
> ..
> and quits
>
> Quick investigation showed that something goes wrong inside
> pthread_attr_init() function called from pthread_create_big()
> (src/c/request.c). It returns error code 16 (EBUSY?). I didn't find
> any clean reasons for that. I was able to run the application by
> commenting out all the custom stack size logic and calling
> pthread_create with default attributes regardless of user settings.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Sergey