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Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this oneis for you]
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:51:59 +0000
- Subject: Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this oneis for you]
- References: <3DD3F96E.4010705@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Harold,
I identify the latest snapshot without the problem here:
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00654.html>
Regards,
David
On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Harold L Hunt II writes:
> I have seen plenty of reports that emacs is going into an infinite loop
> upon startup, but I have not been able to offer any solution to help
> people fix this problem.
>
> Well, now I have the same problem on my machine. This is obviously due
> to a bug in some new Cygwin package, and I am guessing that cygwin1.dll
> is most likely the culprit (as there have been no new XWin.exe nor emacs
> releases in quite some time).
>
> The problem showed up after I ran setup.exe on Monday, I believe... but
> I did not run emacs again until today.
>
> So, which release do we think caused this problem? I am running
> cygwin1.dll version 1.3.15-1 from November 7th.