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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:12:31 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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On 7/1/2015 9:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  1 12:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jun 30 16:13, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 6/30/2015 3:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Jun 27 16:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> On Jun 26 18:28, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>>> On the other hand, emacs doesn't really make a full recovery.  For example,
>>>>>> if I try to call a subprocess (e.g., 'C-x d' to list a directory), I get a
>>>>>> fork error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Doing vfork" "Resource
>>>>>> temporarily unavailable")
>>>>> [...]
>>>> Just FYI, I don't know yet what happens exactly, but this has nothing
>>>> to do with the alternate stack.  The child process fails with a status
>>>> code 0xC00000FD, STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW.  Which is kind of weird, given
>>>> that the stack overflow has been averted by calling siglongjmp.
>>>>
>>>> I have a hunch.  The stack state in the parent is so that TEB::StackLimit
>>>> points into the topmost guard area which, when poked into, triggers the
>>>> stack overflow exception.  When forking, Cygwin performs exactly this:
>>>> It pokes into the stack to push the guard page out of the way, thus
>>>> causing the stack memory to be commited, which in turn allows to copy
>>>> the stack content from parent to child.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, I'm not sure if I can debug this soon, but at leats it's not
>>>> related to sigaltstack handling nor is it a regression.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info, that's good to know.  Just out of curiosity, were you
>>> able to modify your testcase for this, or did you test with emacs?
>>
>> I just added a fork call to my testcase right after the last printf.
>
> My hunch was correct, apparently.  I changed the way the stack info
> is set up for the child so only the actually used part of the stack is
> prepared for the stack copy in the child.  This not only avoids the
> stack overflow in the child, it should shave a few nanoseconds from
> the time a fork takes ;)
>
> I uploaded new developer snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and
> I'm just building and uploading a new test release.
>
> Please give it another try.

That fixes it.  Thanks!

Ken


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