Re: Fork issue with timerfd

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Feb 27 16:31, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/27/2019 11:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 26 13:39, Ken Brown wrote:
> >> On 2/26/2019 4:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> On Feb 26 09:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>> On Feb 26 00:01, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>>>> I did get the following, however, during one of the trials (while emacs was idle):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1 [main] emacs 246 C:\Users\kbrown\src\emacs\i686-emacs26\src\emacs.exe: ***
> >>>>> fatal error - CreateThread failed for pipesel - 0x0<0x0>, Win32 error 8
> >>>>
> >>>> It's hard to imagine how this is related.  CreateThread fails due to
> >>>> memory problems?!?  A timerfd does not use a lot of resources, just a
> >>>> 96 bytes struct on the cygheap, a single page shared memory region, and
> >>>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^'
> >>>
> >>> This was at least the intention, but I accidentally created a 64K
> >>> region.  Fixed in git and new snapshort forthcoming.
> >>
> >> Looks good so far.  I've been running emacs on x86 for about an hour, running
> >> lots of subprocesses, with no problems.  I'll keep using it throughout the day.
> > 
> > Ken?  Any news?  If you're satisfied with the current state, I'd like
> > to push 3.0.2 out.
> 
> I've been using emacs extensively on both x86 and x86_64 with the latest 
> snapshot, and I've had no further problems.  I think 3.0.2 is ready to go.

You don't know how relieved I am to read that.

Thanks for testing and pulling this through with me!


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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