Fork issue with timerfd

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 27 16:24:00 GMT 2019


On Feb 26 13:39, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/26/2019 4:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 26 09:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Feb 26 00:01, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>> I did get the following, however, during one of the trials (while emacs was idle):
> >>>
> >>> 1 [main] emacs 246 C:\Users\kbrown\src\emacs\i686-emacs26\src\emacs.exe: ***
> >>> fatal error - CreateThread failed for pipesel - 0x0<0x0>, Win32 error 8
> >>
> >> It's hard to imagine how this is related.  CreateThread fails due to
> >> memory problems?!?  A timerfd does not use a lot of resources, just a
> >> 96 bytes struct on the cygheap, a single page shared memory region, and
> >                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^'
> > 
> > This was at least the intention, but I accidentally created a 64K
> > region.  Fixed in git and new snapshort forthcoming.
> 
> Looks good so far.  I've been running emacs on x86 for about an hour, running 
> lots of subprocesses, with no problems.  I'll keep using it throughout the day.

Ken?  Any news?  If you're satisfied with the current state, I'd like
to push 3.0.2 out.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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