From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9767: 24.0.90; gdb initialization on Cygwin Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:47:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4EA2912C.7020505@cornell.edu> References: <4E9B0033.2070506@cornell.edu> <4E9B63F0.5040409@cornell.edu> <4E9F2C49.4060307@cornell.edu> <83ipnku3rb.fsf@gnu.org> <4E9F365A.9060207@cornell.edu> <83fwiotzbq.fsf@gnu.org> <4E9F836A.5070505@cornell.edu> <4EA1DA78.5060404@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319276874 11321 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2011 09:47:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:47:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , 9767@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 22 11:47:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYBA-0005N3-96 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:47:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYB9-0006Ug-RH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYB6-0006Ua-Uu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:47:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYB5-0000Cd-If for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYB5-0000CZ-Eo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYCL-0000nd-SC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:49:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9767 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9767-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9767.13192769313057 (code B ref 9767); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9767) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Oct 2011 09:48:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYCA-0000nF-LC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141] helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHYC8-0000n7-3u for 9767@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id p9M9lQda018299 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:47:27 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:49:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:53017 Archived-At: On 10/21/2011 6:24 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> unreliable, and, in particular, it consistently fails on Cygwin. In other >> words, the SIGALRM is delivered before select times out, causing select to >> get interrupted. So wait_reading_process_output does indeed loop, and >> select fails every time (except when a key is pressed). > > Why is it a problem that `select' fails? It should not be a problem: in > the worst case it should only mean that Emacs does "busy waiting" and > uses up more CPU than needed. But it shouldn't prevent Emacs from > reading input from processes (which IIUC is the actual problem we're > trying to solve). You're right. I wasn't thinking clearly. The problem is not solved. Ken