On 2/24/2019 9:23 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/24/2019 2:52 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 24 20:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Feb 24 19:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> On Feb 24 17:27, Ken Brown wrote: >>>>> I'm seeing sporadic errors like this on 64-bit Cygwin when I first start >>>>> emacs: >>>>> >>>>> 0 [main] emacs-X11 864 C:\cygwin64\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal >>>>> error in >>>>> forked process - Can't recreate shared timerfd section during fork! >>>>> 0 [main] emacs 860 dofork: child 864 - died waiting for dll >>>>> loading, errno 11 >>>>> >>>>> If I exit and restart, everything will be fine almost every time. >>>> >>>> I think I see where the thinko was here. Can you try this? >>> >>> No, better try this: >>> [...] >> >> Even if this doesn't fully fix your problem, the patch itself is >> certainly better than the former code, so I pushed it. I also >> uploaded new developer snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> for testing. > > It's better, but not completely fixed. At the moment I'm testing 32-bit only, > since that was the only arch on which I could produce the problem reliably. > Previously I got the error every time I ran emacs. I just tried 5 times with > the new snapshot and only got the error twice.
I withdraw that statement. After further tries, it's back to happening every time. > I'll work on this some more tomorrow and see if I can modify the emacs code so > that it gives me the full error message from Cygwin. > > Ken >
