Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Joe Buehler Subject: emacs hang fix Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:16:28 -0400 Organization: Spirent Communications, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3E947F9C.7070001@hekimian.com> References: <200303261643.h2QGhdUx024950@wolf.cimsoft.com> <3E8C5B1F.1090604@hekimian.com> Reply-To: jbuehler@hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3E8C5B1F.1090604@hekimian.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime > Just a heads up: I am debugging a hang problem in Cygwin that emacs seems > to trigger. It might be the same problem you are seeing, in which case > it's > not an emacs problem. If you have the same problem I do, when you > run strace on a hung emacs you will see it in an infinite loop trying > to deal with signal 20 (SIGCHLD). I tracked this down to a bug in the Cygwin DLL. The fix is easy -- it's a one-liner in the source code. I assume it will be in an upcoming Cygwin DLL release. -- Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/