From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7723: Process list gone wild Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:29:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83fwtldalt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ipyje77s.fsf@gnu.org> <83lj3ec9s0.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293299607 23187 80.91.229.12 (25 Dec 2010 17:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7723@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 25 18:53:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PWYIz-00026e-7g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:53:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57207 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PWYIy-0006tM-NF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:53:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38198 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PWYIr-0006sK-CX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PWYIp-0004oS-CU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:53:13 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PWYIp-0004oO-Ax for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PWXsX-0001PP-WC; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:26:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7723 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7723-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7723.12932979105360 (code B ref 7723); Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7723) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Dec 2010 17:25:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PWXri-0001OP-EB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PWXrf-0001Nt-DW for 7723@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LDZ00600VB0QV00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 7723@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:31:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.219.104]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LDZ006T9VCXDQ50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:31:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:26:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42850 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:29:31 +0100 > Cc: 7723@debbugs.gnu.org > > As I have said before: all calls to the system must be carefully checked. A call to Finsert is not a system call. And there's nothing system-call'ish in the fact that a value that was supposed to be a Lisp string is instead a list of strings. I would rather suspect some rare condition in the code that doesn't get handled correctly. > > If you can reproduce this, put a breakpoint inside list_processes_1, > > and see which of the calls to Finsert signals the error and why. > > It is not reproducible, of course. Well, then how about running Emacs under a debugger, and when that happens again, looking around for the information I requested?