From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Another pipe-related problem?
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:42:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5bbl2r3l9k.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83df50b8-5c0c-41b9-1e9e-4ea6bfa3d69f@cornell.edu> (Ken Brown's message of "Wed\, 10 Nov 2021 13\:03\:09 -0500")
Ken Brown writes:
> ...
> The main change was that we stopped using Win32 Overlapped I/O
> (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/synchronization-and-overlapped-input-and-output)
> and switched to using the NT API. As a result, pipe I/O became much
> more efficient. It wouldn't surprise me if the efficiency alone is
> what exposed the bug.
>
> 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).
So, this may take a while, unless someone else hits the problem and
finds a simpler test case.
Thanks again,
ht
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-10 18:42 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 [this message]
2021-11-10 23:07 ` Andrey Repin
2021-11-11 11:06 ` Andrey Repin
2021-11-11 14:16 ` Ken Brown
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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