Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:41:19 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot
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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.

cgf

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