darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) (08/22/89)
After upgrading GNU Emacs to 18.53, everything seemed to go well. About a week later, people started complaining that postnews wasn't working. After investigation, it turned out that when postnews ran the editor (looking at the environment variable EDITOR), it did a system() call, which hung when emacs was the editor of choice. Eventually, checking through all the changes made in the diff file that might remotely be responsible, I got it to work. All I did was comment out the line in main() [emacs.c] that reads: setpgrp (getpid (), getpid()); This vaguely makes sense, but I am unfamiliar with process groups. Since this call is not being made, am I going to run into other errors or bugs (I assume it was added for a very good reason)? Is there another way to fix this problem? Darin Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com) We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (08/23/89)
In article <675@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:
Is there another way to fix this problem?
That misfeature was added in 18.53 and removed in 18.54.