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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Another pipe-related problem?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:16:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb6c89f6-ad58-da89-69d6-506dc951c1fd@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5bbl2r3l9k.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk>

On 11/10/2021 1:42 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> The good news is that the bug doesn't seem to occur in XEmacs 21.4
>> (on 32-bit Cygwin).  So one way to approach this would be to bisect
>> the XEmacs git repo to find the commit that introduced the bug.
>> You'd probably have to do the work on 32-bit Cygwin since, if I
>> remember correctly, XEmacs 21.4 didn't build on 64-bit Cygwin.
> 
> Right, although I _suspect_ it will be in 64-bit-only code.  Easy
> enough to find out, once I resurrect a 32-bit install on a spare
> machine that I can run 3.3 on (I use XEmacs all day every day from my
> day job, so I need to stay with 3.2 until we fix this).

I had actually tested the 32-bit case before suggesting the bisection.  The bug 
does occur there too.  And, as Andrey said, you don't need to use a spare 
machine.  You can have as many parallel Cygwin installs as you want on a single 
machine, some 64-bit and some 32-bit.

Ken

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-11 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-08 13:12 Henry S. Thompson
2021-11-08 14:35 ` Ken Brown
2021-11-08 18:52   ` Ken Brown
2021-11-09 10:55   ` Henry S. Thompson
2021-11-09 14:11     ` Ken Brown
2021-11-09 14:47       ` Henry S. Thompson
2021-11-09 22:16       ` Ken Brown
2021-11-09 22:20         ` Ken Brown
2021-11-10  2:53           ` Ken Brown
2021-11-10  3:51             ` Backwoods BC
2021-11-10 14:47             ` Ken Brown
2021-11-10 17:23               ` Henry S. Thompson
2021-11-10 18:03                 ` Ken Brown
2021-11-10 18:42                   ` Henry S. Thompson
2021-11-10 23:07                     ` Andrey Repin
2021-11-11 11:06                       ` Andrey Repin
2021-11-11 14:16                     ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-12-08 21:09                     ` XEmacs versus Cygwin 3.3 (was Re: Another pipe-related problem?) Henry S. Thompson
2021-12-09  8:39                       ` Aidan Kehoe
2021-11-09 23:22       ` Another pipe-related problem? Takashi Yano
2021-11-09 23:29         ` Takashi Yano
2021-11-09 23:48           ` Takashi Yano
2021-11-10  0:16             ` Takashi Yano
2021-11-10  0:37               ` Takashi Yano
2021-11-10  2:02                 ` Ken Brown

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