[private reply -- it's not exactly a private repo, but it's really not ready for prime-time with users expecting to be able to raise issues etc.]
Ken Brown writes: > ... > I was aware that the bitbucket repo didn't exist, because I tried to get the > sources there. But I didn't know about the fork. Please point me to it, or > just make a tarball available to me somehow. https://foss.heptapod.net/xemacs >> ... > I'll have to reproduce the hang myself in order to test this (or > maybe you could test it), but I now have a new guess: If the read > call above keeps failing with EINTR, then we're in an infinite loop. > This could happen because of the following code in > fhandler_pipe::raw_read: > > DWORD waitret = cygwait (read_mtx, timeout); > switch (waitret) > { > case WAIT_OBJECT_0: > break; > case WAIT_TIMEOUT: > set_errno (EAGAIN); > len = (size_t) -1; > return; > default: > set_errno (EINTR); > len = (size_t) -1; > return; > } > Let's wait and see what Takashi says -- I see from github blame that was introduced between 3.2 and 3.3.0, so certainly _could_ be the culprit. I've never tried to build my own Cygwin... Thanks, ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
