bug#14473: 24.3; emacs locks up when eshell attempts to display a dialog

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:47:48 +0200
> Cc: 14473@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca> writes:
> 
> > When working in Eshell, if a dialog such as
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install/dist-set2.png is to
> > be displayed, Emacs will lock up and the processor will stay at 100%
> > until Emacs is killed.  This also happens when starting with Emacs -Q.
> 
> Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs?  If yes, could
> you please provide a recipe for how to reproduce it, starting from
> "emacs -Q"?
> 
> (BTW, the link above is dead.)

You can still find it in the Internet Archive:

  
https://web.archive.org/web/20130801011654/http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install/dist-set2.png