Another pipe-related problem?

[Henry S. Thompson]

[private reply -- it's not exactly a private repo, but it's really not
 ready for prime-time with users expecting to be able to raise issues
 etc.]

Ken Brown writes:

> ...
> I was aware that the bitbucket repo didn't exist, because I tried to get the
> sources there.  But I didn't know about the fork.  Please point me to it, or
> just make a tarball available to me somehow.

https://foss.heptapod.net/xemacs

>> ...

> I'll have to reproduce the hang myself in order to test this (or
> maybe you could test it), but I now have a new guess: If the read
> call above keeps failing with EINTR, then we're in an infinite loop.

> This could happen because of the following code in
> fhandler_pipe::raw_read:
>
>   DWORD waitret = cygwait (read_mtx, timeout);
>   switch (waitret)
>     {
>     case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
>       break;
>     case WAIT_TIMEOUT:
>       set_errno (EAGAIN);
>       len = (size_t) -1;
>       return;
>     default:
>       set_errno (EINTR);
>       len = (size_t) -1;
>       return;
>     }
>

Let's wait and see what Takashi says -- I see from github blame that
was introduced between 3.2 and 3.3.0, so certainly _could_ be the
culprit.  I've never tried to build my own Cygwin...

Thanks,

ht
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