How to "bisect" Cygwin?

[Ryan C. Underwood]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:59:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, I have no idea why I did not receive that mail.  I looked for
> > "nightly builds" but that would have been why I didn't find such.

-20111216, the oldest snapshot, already produces the problem, so I
guess that at least tells me that my problem came in somewhere between
1.7.9 and the end of 2011.  Are there older snapshots archived?

> If you can press a long story into a short testcase in plain C with the
> bare minimum of code to reproduce the behaviour, it would be much
> appreciated.

The basic issue is that sem_wait() is being kicked out with EINTR
extremely frequently (9 out of 10 times or more), which slows my code
to a crawl as it repeatedly retries sem_wait() until it finally
returns zero.  In 1.7.9, it does not appear that sem_wait() is
preempted in this fashion; the thread would simply wait on the
semaphore until it was sem_post()'d and then continue as expected.

Like I said, I am not exactly sure my code is not to blame at this
point, but as a starting point for analysis I wanted to see if this
change in semantics was deliberate or not and if there was any mailing
list discussion or code comments about it at the time the change was
made.

-- 
Ryan C. Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>
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