Fork issue with timerfd
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Mar 6 21:23:00 GMT 2019
On Mar 6 21:54, Peter Kozich (UM) wrote:
> In response to this one:
>
> Re: Fork issue with timerfd
>
> From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:15:32 +0100
> Subject: Re: Fork issue with timerfd
>
> ....
>
> Anyway, the latest snapshot seemingly resolved that issue as
> well, I can no longer reproduce it.
>
>
> Unfortunately, only seemingly. Factually, the issue persists. And I
> don't have to do anything with emacs just shoot up, wait cca. 20
> seconds and it inevitably crashes, and it does so in the foreground,
> too:
>
> peter@D11934N ~
> $ emacs .bash_history &
> [2] 489
> [1] Done emacs .bash_history
>
> 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.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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