Subject: Re: bug#51734: 29.0.50; got slow

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:28:00 -0500

On 11/11/2021 1:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That makes much more sense, thanks.
> 
> Wasn't there some issue with SIGALRM and/or timerfd on Cygwin?  Or am
> I dreaming?

You have a good memory!  There was an issue that timerfd was buggy when it was 
first introduced, but it was fixed not too much later.  See 
atimer.c:have_buggy_timerfd().

> If no better idea comes up, we could disable that change on Cygwin.

Sounds good.

Ken