rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) (09/02/84)
We run (gosling) emacs under 4.2 and there is an elusive process bug that I would like desparately to track down. The symptom is that (sometimes) emacs hangs while consuming cpu cycles, always after starting up an emacs process, and usually when the system load is high. My guess is that emacs is waiting for the process to terminate, and somehow missed the signal that made the process be done. If anyone else has experienced this problem, or can give me a fix (even a hack -- I'm desparate), I'd appreciate it. thanks in advance, Tim Rentsch
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/03/84)
I haven't seen that one, but I have seen one that looks somewhat
similar from the outside: Emacs appears to hang, then eventually
starts a subshell. This one can be repeated by typing ahead while
generating an error; one way might be to hold down ')' in electric-C
mode. The fix for this particular bug is extremely simple: just
remove a piece of code in fill_chan that says ``if (err) return;''
(with a comment near it about ^G interrupts). I don't know if this
adversely affects HalfBaked mode though.
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