Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this one is for you]

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Thu Nov 14 13:50:00 GMT 2002


Harold,

I identify the latest snapshot without the problem here:

<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00654.html>

Regards,
David

On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Harold L Hunt II writes:
> I have seen plenty of reports that emacs is going into an infinite loop 
> upon startup, but I have not been able to offer any solution to help 
> people fix this problem.
> 
> Well, now I have the same problem on my machine.  This is obviously due 
> to a bug in some new Cygwin package, and I am guessing that cygwin1.dll 
> is most likely the culprit (as there have been no new XWin.exe nor emacs 
> releases in quite some time).
> 
> The problem showed up after I ran setup.exe on Monday, I believe... but 
> I did not run emacs again until today.
> 
> So, which release do we think caused this problem?  I am running 
> cygwin1.dll version 1.3.15-1 from November 7th.



More information about the Cygwin-xfree mailing list