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Re: "emacs -nw" hangs in a terminal
On May 22 15:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 22 07:42, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 5/22/2012 7:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On May 21 14:51, Ken Brown wrote:
> > >>On 5/21/2012 12:29 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >>>On May 21 11:31, Ken Brown wrote:
> > >>>>On 5/21/2012 6:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > >>>>I've discovered something strange by running emacs under gdb. If I
> > >>>>start emacs-24 in a terminal (but not under X) and start a shell as
> > >>>>you did, then every press of C-g creates a new thread, and these are
> > >>>>never destroyed. I'm pretty sure the threads are created by Cygwin,
> > >>>>not by emacs.
> > >>>[...]
> > >Somehow I'm not able to test this. When I start `emacs -Q -nw' in cmd
> > >or mintty, emacs takes 100% CPU for some reason. It doesn't matter if I
> > >try it under Cygwin 1.7.15 or current CVS.
> >
> > That's strange. All my tests were done in mintty. Would it help if
> > I sent some strace output and/or a gdb backtrace? I assumed you
> > could get those (or at least the strace output) yourself, and I
> > didn't want to spam the list.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > P.S. BTW, I tested today's snapshot, and the problem is still there.
>
> I doubt that an strace is sufficient, but you could send me one created
> with the latest snapshot off-list, to the address I'm using in the
> Changelogs. Please point out the places which seem suspicious to you.
Ouch! Hang on. I didn't test with the 24.x version, but with the
old one. Sorry about that. Now I can reproduce the SEGV.
Corinna
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