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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: 14553@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14553: 24.3.50; C-g doesn't break inf-loop
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:12:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D33439.9030403@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4m38syxv6f.fsf@jpl.org>

On 6/4/2013 2:10 AM, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Start Emacs with the -Q option.
> Eval the form: (while t)
>
> Then I get unable to break it.  So is Emacs 24.3.  This may happen
> only on Cygwin, though.  It makes me hard to debug a code suspected
> to have an infinite loop.

I can confirm that this happens on Cygwin but not on GNU/Linux.  This 
may just reflect the fact that Cygwin doesn't have SIGIO.  Maybe someone 
who understands how Emacs handles keyboard input can weigh in on this 
and suggest a workaround.

Ken






  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-04  6:10 bug#14553: 24.3.50; C-g doesn't break inf-loop Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-07-02 20:12 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2013-07-02 23:17   ` Josh
2013-07-03  0:34     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-07-03 11:13     ` Ken Brown
2014-03-23  6:27 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-09-30 15:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01  0:01 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-10-01  0:59   ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-10 11:14     ` bug#14553: [cygwin] C-g doesn't interrupt (while t) Stefan Kangas
2024-01-10 16:31       ` Ken Brown
2024-01-10 17:09         ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11  5:29 ` Katsumi Yamaoka

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