From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9767@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9767: 24.0.90; gdb initialization on Cygwin
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:43:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9F365A.9060207@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ipnku3rb.fsf@gnu.org>
On 10/19/2011 4:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:00:09 -0400
>> From: Ken Brown<kbrown@cornell.edu>
>> CC: 9767@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> After M-x gdb finishes its initialization, emacs goes into its command
>> loop. read_char calls sit_for with a timeout of 30 seconds, and sit_for
>> calls wait_reading_process_output, which calls select. The call to
>> select fails immediately with EINTR. I don't understand the command
>> loop well enough to know what's interrupting the select call.
>
> EINTR means that some signal arrived (assuming that Cygwin's `select'
> is Posix-ish enough). The question is, which signal? Does Cygwin
> provide any tools to see which signals were delivered to a program?
There's a program called strace that produces lots of debugging
information like this. I'll give it a try.
> Also, the fact that `select' is interrupted doesn't necessarily mean
> that the input arrival is ignored, does it? Doesn't
> wait_reading_process_output loop around and examines the input
> descriptors again? If not, why not? IOW, why should EINTR become a
> failure?
No, wait_reading_process_output treats EINTR as though it meant there's
no input available. Here's the relevant code from process.c, line 4638.
if (nfds < 0)
{
if (xerrno == EINTR)
no_avail = 1;
Even worse, xg_select (which is what the Cygwin build uses) deliberately
returns -1 and sets errno = EINTR whenever the actual select call
returns 0. Here's the code from xg_select.c, line 141:
/* To not have to recalculate timeout, return like this. */
if (retval == 0)
{
retval = -1;
errno = EINTR;
}
I don't know the rationale for treating EINTR the same as no input
available, but I agree that it doesn't seem right.
>> The code in keyboard.c is full of alarms and timers, presumably related
>> to polling for keyboard input. Could this polling be doing something
>> that interrupts the select call under some circumstances?
>
> Atimers (those which are responsible for the "busy cursor" display)
> could deliver SIGALRM, yes. But again, I don't see why this should
> fail the loop that waits for input, and then only in this particular
> case. Something else is at work here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-16 16:02 bug#9767: 24.0.90; gdb initialization on Cygwin Ken Brown
2011-10-16 23:08 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-17 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 20:00 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-19 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 20:43 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2011-10-19 21:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-19 22:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20 2:11 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-21 20:47 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-21 22:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-22 9:51 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-22 20:58 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-23 21:59 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-21 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-22 9:47 ` Ken Brown
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