This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: "emacs -nw" hangs in a terminal
On May 21 11:31, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/21/2012 6:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> >On 5/21/2012 4:50 AM, Filipp Gunbin wrote:
> >>emacs-24.0.96-2 crashes when I am doing the following:
> >>
> >>1) emacs -Q -nw
> >>2) M-x shell
> >>3) C-x C-f C-g
> >
> >I can reproduce this. I'll try again to fix it.
>
> I've discovered something strange by running emacs under gdb. If I
> start emacs-24 in a terminal (but not under X) and start a shell as
> you did, then every press of C-g creates a new thread, and these are
> never destroyed. I'm pretty sure the threads are created by Cygwin,
> not by emacs.
What does C-g mean in Emacs? What's it supposed to do? Does it
call select or poll?
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple