Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.1

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun 26 18:28, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 6/26/2015 4:05 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >As for getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK), I changed that as outlined in my former
> >mail in git.  On second thought, I also changed the values of
> >MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ.  Instead of 2K and 8K, they are now defined
> >as 32K and 64K.  The reason is that we then have enough space on the
> >alternate stack to install a _cygtls area, should the need arise.
> >
> >I created new developer snapshots on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >Please give them a try.
> >
> >Remember to tweak STACK_DANGER_ZONE.  You'll have to rebuild emacs
> >anyway due to the change to [MIN]SIGSTKSZ.
> 
> Hi Corinna and Ben,
> 
> It works now, in the sense that emacs doesn't crash, and it produces the
> message "Re-entering top level after C stack overflow".  I tested both
> 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin.  My test consisted of evaluating the following in
> the emacs *scratch* buffer:
> 
> (setq max-specpdl-size 83200000
>       max-lisp-eval-depth 640000)
> (defun foo () (foo))
> (foo)
> 
> (The 'setq' is to override emacs's built-in protection against too-deeply
> nested lisp function calls.)
> 
> On the other hand, emacs doesn't really make a full recovery.  For example,
> if I try to call a subprocess (e.g., 'C-x d' to list a directory), I get a
> fork error:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Doing vfork" "Resource
> temporarily unavailable")

The problem is probably that there are still resources in use which
didn't get free'd.  I'll check next week if I can do anything about it.
Ideally with a simple testcase than emacs :}

> In view of what Ben said, I don't really care about this from the emacs
> point of view.  I mention it only in case it's useful to you for testing the
> alternate stack.

Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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