emacs problem

Wed Jul 10 22:13:00 GMT 2013

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:55:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>On 7/10/2013 2:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote:
>>>>>> I'm starting to see this error quite a bit in the terminal window I started
>>> emacs from:
>>>>>> 0 [main] emacs-X11 19400 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error in
>>> forked process - failed to create new win32 semaphore, Win32 error 87
>>>>Have you tried rebaseall 
>>(http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures)? This isn't 
>>the typical error message you see from rebase problems, but it can't 
>>hurt to try. If that doesn't help, maybe you could test the build I 
>>mentioned at
>>That doesn't look like the standard fork problem, Ken. The error comes
>from semaphore::_fixup_after_fork:
>...
>Error code 87 is ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. The only two things that I
>can see which would cause that problem are "sec_non_nih" and
>currentvalue.
>>I'll change the error to report on currentvalue. I assume that
>currentvalue must be zero for some reason here and that is what is
>causing the problem but it would be nice to know for sure.

The current snapshot has this change and a shot-in-the-dark attempt to
fix the reported problem as well.
cgf
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