Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/08/03/16:02:56
On 8/3/2012 12:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:41:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:05:10PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 8/2/2012 3:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>>>> Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>>>> Just to be clear: Is this with the recent snapshot?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, this is with the 2012-08-01 snapshot.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I ask because one other "I see something similar" seemed to come from
>>>>>> 1.7.16.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm almost always running a snapshot, but I can back it out to vanilla
>>>>> Cygwin or any other snapshot if it helps finding the error. I don't
>>>>> think I've had any other updates except mesa inbetween switching from
>>>>> the snapshot I used before and the current one ??? but that is
>>>>> circumstancial evidence only.
>>>>
>>>> It would be interesting to see if you or Ken have a problem with the
>>>> 20120730 snapshot.
>>>>
>>>> And, if so, then an strace would probably be useful, although it would
>>>> be huge. If you do get one, let me know how to download it or I can
>>>> provide temporary storage somewhere.
>>>
>>> I do have the same problem with the 20120730 snapshot. I started emacs
>>> in an xterm window, attached strace, and walked away. This time it
>>> didn't take long for emacs to crash, so the strace output isn't huge:
>>>
>>> wget http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/strace.out
>>
>> Thanks. I think I see the problem but I won't be able to get to it
>> tonight.
>>
>> It's in the new signal handling code.
>
> I was actually able to duplicate this fairly easy. It took me too long
> to realize that I had to run the X version of emacs, when that should
> have been obvious from the strace.
>
> I have uploaded a new snapshot which should fix the problem.
>
> Can you confirm Ken?
I'm testing. It looks good so far, but I'd like to get emacs running
without a crash for 24 hours before I'm confident. I'll report back
tomorrow.
I'm also testing to see if the recent changes have fixed the problem
that I was struggling with in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00048.html . That also
looks good so far.
Ken
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