GNU bug report logs - #14569
24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>

Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 00:17:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #236 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it>
Cc: bug-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:23 -0700

On 06/27/2013 09:44 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> In more than six months, only one or two times Emacs, from trunk,
> closed unexpectedly. Usually it is enough stable.

The remaining bug won't cause Cygwin Emacs to close unexpectedly.
What it'll do, is cause Cygwin Emacs to lose track of
its child processes -- it'll think they've finished,
when they haven't, or vice versa.  And it can cause
Cygwin Emacs to kill innocent-bystander processes.
These problems are rare, but I expect they can occur
under Cygwin, just as they used to occur under
POSIXish sytems before we redid child process handling.
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