Fork issue with timerfd

Tue Mar 5 19:15:00 GMT 2019

Ken Brown writes:
> On 3/4/2019 1:13 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> I consistently see that problem with the latest snapshot 20190303 when
>> trying to save a changed document from emacs-w32. I didn't try
>> emacs-X11 and emacs-nox doesn't exhibit the problem (or rarely enough
>> that I got through the day without it ever occuring).
>> By "that problem" do you mean a fork failure? I don't think it could be related 
> to the timerfd issues unless you're using an emacs that you built yourself or 
> installed from my personal Cygwin repo. The emacs in the Cygwin distro was 
> built before Cygwin supported the timerfd functions and so it doesn't try to use 
> them.

Sorry, I shouldn't have said timerfd, it was just related to another
piece of timer code. What I was talking about was this:
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Anyway, the latest snapshot seemingly resolved that issue as well, I can
no longer reproduce it.
Regards,
Achim.
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