From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7850 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2013 21:10:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7841 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2013 21:10:18 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:10:17 +0000 Received: from pool-71-126-240-138.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([71.126.240.138] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ux1eR-0006l6-LB for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:10:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FAA60121 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:10:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/HQS+cCs21HwzZK1/p4fvQ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:13:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs problem Message-ID: <20130710211014.GA2699@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <51DDAE03.2040209@cornell.edu> <20130710205538.GA5740@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130710205538.GA5740@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00208.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:55:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >>On 7/10/2013 2:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: >>> >>> I'm starting to see this error quite a bit in the terminal window I started >>> emacs from: >>> >>> 0 [main] emacs-X11 19400 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error in >>> forked process - failed to create new win32 semaphore, Win32 error 87 >> >>Have you tried rebaseall >>(http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures)? This isn't >>the typical error message you see from rebase problems, but it can't >>hurt to try. If that doesn't help, maybe you could test the build I >>mentioned at > >That doesn't look like the standard fork problem, Ken. The error comes >from semaphore::_fixup_after_fork: >... >Error code 87 is ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. The only two things that I >can see which would cause that problem are "sec_non_nih" and >currentvalue. > >I'll change the error to report on currentvalue. I assume that >currentvalue must be zero for some reason here and that is what is >causing the problem but it would be nice to know for sure. The current snapshot has this change and a shot-in-the-dark attempt to fix the reported problem as well. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple