emacs problem

[J. David Boyd]

Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:

> 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

Yes, the first thing I tried was rebaseall, but that also gives (in my
history) the message about not being able to fork a new process.

I'll get your rebuilt verison, and see what happens.  It's worth a shot.

Thanks,

Dave


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