bug#28472: 26.0.50; Deadlock in Fkill_emacs on MS-Windows

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:15:51 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 28472@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> Thanks.  I see nothing in this backtrace that could tell what to do to
>> avoid the hang.  All the threads are stuck in system calls, two of
>> then in WaitForSingleObject.  So it sounds like some race condition,
>> but I have no idea what that could be.  FWIW, it never happened to me
>> during a bootstrap.
>>
>> It could be bug#14333, which we never solved.  But the backtraces
>> there were more informative.
>
> One possible way to gain more info is to add printf's in several
> places in term_timers and in term_ntproc, and see what this tells us
> about where Emacs gets stuck.  But make sure bootstrap commands don't
> redirect stdout/stderr to some place, or you may not see the output.

No more information was given within 2 years, 46 weeks. Since the
backtrace was not enough to make any progress, I'm closing this bug now.

If this is still an issue, please reply to this email (use "Reply to
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Best regards,
Stefan Kangas