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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: raman <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>, "T. V. Raman" <raman@google.com>,
	17358@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17358: 24.4.50; emacs not recognizing process-exit correctly?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:03:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535D9ABD.2010709@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iopu1fys.fsf@gmail.com>

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On 04/27/2014 04:59 PM, T. V. Raman wrote:
> This has now happened to me with both mplayer and gpg, so I am
> beginning to suspect a bug in the process status handling code
> ...
> 
> Symptoms: Happens in long-running emacs sessions, and fails to
> repro if you kill and restart Emacs.

How long?

> When the bug bites,, emacs hangs waiting for the subprocess even
> though the subprocess has quit. Happens for example when you open
> a foo.gpg file. If this happens, the gpg process finishes
> decrypting the file, but Emacs fails to notice that it is done,
> and hangs. Hitting C-g produces the message "buffer *epg* has a
> running process ...". If you answer "no" to  kill that process,
> emacs continues to hang.  Checking status of the gpg process from
> a different terminal shows that process' status as "defunct".
> 
> Similar behavior with mplayer as well.
> 
> This is on an oldish Linux box that is still running Ubuntu
> Jaunty, but with updated libs for gnutls etc.

Just a hunch: can you try a non-glib Emacs?


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-27 23:59 bug#17358: 24.4.50; emacs not recognizing process-exit correctly? raman
2014-04-28  0:03 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-04-28  2:02   ` T. V. Raman
2014-05-17  6:57 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-17 15:08   ` raman
2014-05-19 16:42   ` T.V Raman
2015-12-26 14:18     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 16:56       ` raman
2015-12-26 17:00         ` Paul Eggert

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