Re: emacs problem

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

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

  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00062.html

Ken


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