Article ID: 159127
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q159127
SYMPTOMS
A bugcheck occurs while running a POSIX application that forks many times and calls exec() API from the forked processes.
CAUSE
An API used for freeing virtual memory was not handling fork prototype page table entries (PTE) correctly.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
S E R V P A C K
Additional query words: prodnt
Keywords: kb3rdparty KB159127
