Harold, I identify the latest snapshot without the problem here:
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00654.html> Regards, David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Harold L Hunt II writes: > I have seen plenty of reports that emacs is going into an infinite loop > upon startup, but I have not been able to offer any solution to help > people fix this problem. > > Well, now I have the same problem on my machine. This is obviously due > to a bug in some new Cygwin package, and I am guessing that cygwin1.dll > is most likely the culprit (as there have been no new XWin.exe nor emacs > releases in quite some time). > > The problem showed up after I ran setup.exe on Monday, I believe... but > I did not run emacs again until today. > > So, which release do we think caused this problem? I am running > cygwin1.dll version 1.3.15-1 from November 7th.