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Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:41:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:05:10PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>>Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>>>Just to be clear: Is this with the recent snapshot?
>>>>
>>>>Yes, this is with the 2012-08-01 snapshot.
>>>>
>>>>>I ask because one other "I see something similar" seemed to come from
>>>>>1.7.16.
>>>>
>>>>I'm almost always running a snapshot, but I can back it out to vanilla
>>>>Cygwin or any other snapshot if it helps finding the error. I don't
>>>>think I've had any other updates except mesa inbetween switching from
>>>>the snapshot I used before and the current one ??? but that is
>>>>circumstancial evidence only.
>>>
>>>It would be interesting to see if you or Ken have a problem with the
>>>20120730 snapshot.
>>>
>>>And, if so, then an strace would probably be useful, although it would
>>>be huge. If you do get one, let me know how to download it or I can
>>>provide temporary storage somewhere.
>>
>>I do have the same problem with the 20120730 snapshot. I started emacs
>>in an xterm window, attached strace, and walked away. This time it
>>didn't take long for emacs to crash, so the strace output isn't huge:
>>
>>wget http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/strace.out
>
>Thanks. I think I see the problem but I won't be able to get to it
>tonight.
>
>It's in the new signal handling code.
I was actually able to duplicate this fairly easy. It took me too long
to realize that I had to run the X version of emacs, when that should
have been obvious from the strace.
I have uploaded a new snapshot which should fix the problem.
Can you confirm Ken?
cgf
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