On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:45:47AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: >Cygwin developers, I'm worried about a Cygwin bug where >pthread_kill may not send a signal to the correct thread. >This bug may be causing Emacs to crash. The Cygwin bug is >discussed in this thread: > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00472.html > >Emacs uses pthread_kill to redirect >SIGCHLD to the main thread; if this is sent to a random >thread instead, that could explain the random crashes. > >My question is: does this bug still exist with Cygwin, >and if so is it likely to get fixed soon?
You pointed to an archived mail messages which implies that was fixed more than a year ago. What makes you think it is still a problem? I'd expect that if it was still a problem our emacs maintainer would be on top of it. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
