Re: EMACS problems with Cygwin 1.5.7.1

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 andy<dot>glew<at>amd<dot>com wrote:

> In case anyone keeeps track, I have been seeing the same frequent
> crashes of EMACS on CYGWIN 1.5.7.1 that "Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot
> mvs dot co dot il> and "Charles Plager" <cplager+cygwin at physics dot
> ucla dot edu> have already reported to this list.
>
> Grepping further:
>    Thomas L Roche <tlroche <AT> us.ibm.com>
>    Dr.. Volkmer Zell
> all seem to report similar problems.
> As do many other people.
>
> It is highly likely that my problem is the same as those guys report.
>
> ---
>
> At this point, I am just piling on. Sorry if you consider such an
> additional problem report a waste of bandwidth; myself, as a software
> developer I consider bug reports gold; even duplicate bug reports serve
> to show that a problem is widespread.
> [snip]
> cygwin 1.5.7.1
> [snip]

As a software developer, I'm sure you know the value of development
snapshots[*] (and trying them out). :-)
FWIW, "Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il> reported in
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00822.html> that the latest
snapshot *does* fix his problem.
	Igor
[*] See <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>
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