Another pipe-related problem?
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Nov 11 14:16:04 GMT 2021
On 11/10/2021 1:42 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> The good news is that the bug doesn't seem to occur in XEmacs 21.4
>> (on 32-bit Cygwin). So one way to approach this would be to bisect
>> the XEmacs git repo to find the commit that introduced the bug.
>> You'd probably have to do the work on 32-bit Cygwin since, if I
>> remember correctly, XEmacs 21.4 didn't build on 64-bit Cygwin.
>
> Right, although I _suspect_ it will be in 64-bit-only code. Easy
> enough to find out, once I resurrect a 32-bit install on a spare
> machine that I can run 3.3 on (I use XEmacs all day every day from my
> day job, so I need to stay with 3.2 until we fix this).
I had actually tested the 32-bit case before suggesting the bisection. The bug
does occur there too. And, as Andrey said, you don't need to use a spare
machine. You can have as many parallel Cygwin installs as you want on a single
machine, some 64-bit and some 32-bit.
Ken
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