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bug#17358: 24.4.50; emacs not recognizing process-exit correctly?
From: |
T. V. Raman |
Subject: |
bug#17358: 24.4.50; emacs not recognizing process-exit correctly? |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:02:53 -0700 |
Has been happening for approximately a week or more -- and I
update from head almost everyday. How exactly do I get a
non-glib emacs?
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
Daniel> On 04/27/2014 04:59 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:
>> This has now happened to me with both mplayer and gpg, so
>> I am beginning to suspect a bug in the process status
>> handling code ...
>>
>> Symptoms: Happens in long-running emacs sessions, and
>> fails to repro if you kill and restart Emacs.
Daniel>
Daniel> How long?
Daniel>
>> When the bug bites,, emacs hangs waiting for the
>> subprocess even though the subprocess has quit. Happens
>> for example when you open a foo.gpg file. If this happens,
>> the gpg process finishes decrypting the file, but Emacs
>> fails to notice that it is done, and hangs. Hitting C-g
>> produces the message "buffer *epg* has a running process
>> ...". If you answer "no" to kill that process, emacs
>> continues to hang. Checking status of the gpg process from
>> a different terminal shows that process' status as
>> "defunct".
>>
>> Similar behavior with mplayer as well.
>>
>> This is on an oldish Linux box that is still running
>> Ubuntu Jaunty, but with updated libs for gnutls etc.
Daniel>
Daniel> Just a hunch: can you try a non-glib Emacs?
Daniel>
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