Re: Warning starting Emacs (Cygwin)

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto:
  > > Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> writes:
  > >
  > >   > I wrote:
  > >   >   > > starting Emacs it opens a buffer called Warnings in which
  > > it prints:
  > >   > >
  > >   > > <beep>
  > >   > > Emergency (alloc): Warning: past 95% of memory limit
  > >   >   >   > I think there is some new problem.
  > >   >   > Downloading cvs-trunk with -D "20080730 17:14" bootstraps
  > > and works
  > >   > without warning.
  > >   >   > Instead -D "20080730 17:15" fails to bootstrap, but it is
  > > solved with
  > >   > the patch discussed here [1] or using systty.h from "20080730 17:14".
  > >   >   > After solving the bootstrap problem the warning shows up.
  > >   >   > Below [2] there are the differences between "20080730 17:14"
  > > and
  > >   > "20080730 17:15" and it seem hard to think that the patch is the cause
  > >   > of the warning.
  > >   >   > Perhaps the new handling (in 20080730 17:15) of getrlimit?
  > >
  > > Can you please try to verify that?  Doing a "cvs update" and
  > > removing #undef HAVE_GETRLIMIT from
  > > config.in should be enough.
  > 
  > Indeed! That workaround fixes the warning. Now Emacs starts normally.

Good, thanks for checking.

  > Perhaps, now, the fix should be applied to trunk...

Well, that would not be a good idea.  The HAVE_GETRLIMIT check was added
for a reason, and it's very likely correct.  It seems that it has some
side effect on Cygwin.  It would be great if you could debug that.