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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:23:00 +0100
From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes - snapshot test requested
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On 12/21/2012 8:36 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:02:19PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Dec 21 11:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> Maybe the signal thread should really not exit by itself, but just
>>>> wait until the TerminateThread is called.  Chris?
>>>
>>> If the analysis is correct, that just fixes one symptom doesn't it?
>>> There are potentially many threads running in any Cygwin program
>>> and it sounds like any one of them could trigger this.
>>
>> Right.  I guess the question is how to synchronize things so that the
>> thread calling TerminateProcess is actually the last one, making sure
>> its return value is used.
>>
>> Maybe the NtQueryInformationThread(ThreadAmILastThread) call is of some
>> help.  Or we have to keep all thread IDs of the self-started threads
>> available to terminate them explicitely at process exit.
>
> I checked in a complicated fix for this problem which only affected
> Cygwin-created threads.  But, then, I thought about another riskier but
> simpler fix.  That version is now in CVS and I'm generating a new
> snapshot with it.
>
> I tested this lightly on Windows 7 and 32-bit XP but it would be nice to
> hear if multi-threaded things like X work on other platforms too.
>
> If you test a snapshot, note that I'm still tracking down Ken Brown's
> reporte emacs regression in recent snapshots so that will still be
> broken.
>
> cgf
>

I think the Xserver doesn't like it.
on 20121221 it freezes on start on W7/64
no issue on 20121218

Regards
Marco


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