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Re: Emacs-w32... still crashing


On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:05:43PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>On 6/3/2014 6:00 PM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
>> And... another crash. I didn't run it under gdb this
>> time and it didn't dump anything either, but I got
>> interesting new message I didn't see before:
>>
>> *** fatal error - WFSO failed waiting for timer thread, Win32 error 0
>
>This message comes from the function timer_tracker::cancel in timer.cc 
>in the Cygwin sources.  I'm afraid I have no idea what the timer thread 
>is or why WaitForSingleObject might fail waiting for it.
>
>cgf or Corinna (or anyone else), can you shed any light on what might 
>cause this?  Could it be BLODA, for instance?

I really don't see how WaitForSingleObject can fail like this but I have
demoted that fatal condition to a warning and added slightly more
debugging output to it.  The next snapshot will have that change.

cgf

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