clearcase.el starting up problem

[reinhard . hahn]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2002-03-19 on buffy
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: DEU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Concerns clearcase.el version "ClearCase-version: </main/laptop/116>"
Running under NT.

When including a line like 

     (require 'clearcase)

in my .emacs file, startup process hangs with the message

   "Buffer *clearcase-lsregion* has subprocess(es) running; kill anyway?
(yes or no)"


I analized the reason as follows.

In the initialising section (the last top-level call
of (progn ...), there is a line

        (setq clearcase-servers-online (clearcase-registry-server-online-p))

which refers to

      (defun clearcase-registry-server-online-p ()
        "Heuristic to determine if the local host is network-connected to
        its ClearCase server(s)."
          (if clearcase-lt
                (clearcase-lt-registry-server-online-p)
                    (clearcase-non-lt-registry-server-online-p)))

The code of the function clearcase-non-lt-registry-server-online-p
ends with

     ...
    (if result
        (kill-buffer buf))
    result))

This (kill-buffer buf) causes the a.m. message. Normally the 

     (kill-process process) 

a few lines before should garuantee, that there is no process 
running in that buffer. In fact, the process is finished at 
any time I test it interactively. So there is obviously some
timing problem that the process isn't finished at that time and
so the reported question ist displayed in the mini-buffer.

For my installation I just commented out the two lines:

;    (if result
;        (kill-buffer buf))

with the drawback, that the buffer isn't killed but with the 
advantage that the startup process isn't interrupted.

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Reinhard Hahn
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