Re: Fork issue with timerfd

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

On Mar  8 21:27, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > > peter@D11934N ~
> > > > > $       1 [main] emacs 489 C:\CygWin\bin\emacs-w32.exe: *** fatal
> > > > > error -
> > > > > CreateThread failed for pipesel - 0x0<0x0>, Win32 error 8
> > > >
> > > > I couldn't directly reproduce this issue, but I saw emacs using
> > > > more an more memory while the cursor was blinking.  I found a
> > > > resource leak in posix timers which was probably the cause for this problem.
> > > >
> > > > I pushed a patch and uploaded new developer snapshots to
> > > > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> > > >
> > > > Please test.
> > I can't reproduce this with 0308.  I'm typing lots and lots in emacs, doing copy/paste with the mouse, and it just works with 0308.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Install the cygwin1.dbg file into /bin and When Emacs hangs, attach with gdb and print the backtrace of each thread.  That should give a hint.
> 
> > > I have been running
> > > https://cygwin.com/snapshots/x86/cygwin1-20190306.dll.xz , i.e., March
> > > 6th For a couple hours yesterday and all day today along with Ken Brown's test version of emacs (GNU Emacs 26.1.92) And have not had a hiccup.
> > > (Well, to be truthful, I'm running a lot more of Ken Brown's test
> > > software than just emacs.)
> 
> > Can you please test the 0308 snapshot with stock emacs, too?
> 
> I am testing with https://cygwin.com/snapshots/x86/cygwin1-20190308.dll.xz and stock (26.1) emacs now.
> I see no hangup so far.  You're not going crazy Corinna.

Thanks for confirming :}


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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