Re: QNX subprocess bug

[Richard Stallman]

    The bug is showing up in emacs 21.2.1 on QNX 6.3.0.  It appears
    that process IDs on QNX really occupy 32-bits.  Some of them are
    quite large.  This causes a problem in the subprocess package
    which uses an elisp integer (28 bits + type info - I think) to
    try to store the PID.

    Obvious this problem could, in principle, arise on any system that uses 
32-bit 
    process IDs, and it seems to me rather sloppy programming to use such a 
    shortcut, especially in such comparatively rarely executed code.

It is not a short cut.  The reason the pid is represented as a Lisp
integer is that (1) all the slots in a process object have to be Lisp
objects, and (2) Emacs has no way to deal with integer values larger
than a Lisp integer.

It will not be easy to fix this problem.  Since QNX support is not a
high priority for GNU, I think it is up to you to implement the fix.
But since there is no obvious way to fix it, first you'd need to
work out a way that would not cause too much problem in Emacs.