Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/05/12/22:29:16
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:04:53PM -0400, Dmitry Yaitskov wrote:
>On my system, this assert at the end happens now and then, esp. when
>I'm running gnus, and there is some windows showing - hiding activity.
>As far as I could understand, this should not happen according to
>select() docs - i.e. if (badly_p), select() is called with the timeout
>parameter set to 0, which means a blocking call. I have put a
>workaraound in my copy of event-msw.c, which basically has a while loop
>around select(), and it helps - but does not seem right to me. Anybody
>got any ideas? Thanks.
>
>FWIW, I've been seeing this since XEmacs 21.2.b26, and a mid-december
>snapshot of cygwin. I'm using the net relase 1.1 now, and XEmacs
>21.2.b33. I do have an impression that the situation became harder to
>repro with cygwin 1.1, but it still happened.
I don't exactly understand whats going on but I've made some changes to
select which will show up in tonight's snapshot. The changes just try
to absolutely ensure that select never returns 0 unless there is a
timeout.
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/
cgf
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