On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:55:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >>On 7/10/2013 2:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: >>> >>> I'm starting to see this error quite a bit in the terminal window I started >>> emacs from: >>> >>> 0 [main] emacs-X11 19400 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error >>> in >>> forked process - failed to create new win32 semaphore, Win32 error 87 >> >>Have you tried rebaseall >>(http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures)? This isn't >>the typical error message you see from rebase problems, but it can't >>hurt to try. If that doesn't help, maybe you could test the build I >>mentioned at > >That doesn't look like the standard fork problem, Ken. The error comes >from semaphore::_fixup_after_fork: >... >Error code 87 is ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. The only two things that I >can see which would cause that problem are "sec_non_nih" and >currentvalue. > >I'll change the error to report on currentvalue. I assume that >currentvalue must be zero for some reason here and that is what is >causing the problem but it would be nice to know for sure.
The current snapshot has this change and a shot-in-the-dark attempt to fix the reported problem as well. cgf -- 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
