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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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: "14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu" <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>,
 "angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it" <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it>
Subject: Re: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:00:13 +0200

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Hi.

Paul Eggert wrote:

> I did notice one problem: the code previously invoked g_child_watch_source_new (0), which is not safe if Emacs has already forked -- perhaps Cygwin was doing that? So I changed it to g_child_watch_source_new (getpid ()) in trunk bzr 112929.

It is crasches much less with this change, about one in three builds.  Previously it crasched on every build. 
Some sort of race condition, perhaps?

As for what the threads do, I don't know. There are five threads created when Emacs byte-compiles one file.

      Jan D. 
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