From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Richard Sharman <richard.sharman@mitel.com>
Cc: 22622@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22622: 24.5; ask-user-about-supersession-threat causes emacs -batch to hang
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:42:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pow0680w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLUPR12MB0401511A1717116825CF71B0EFD70@BLUPR12MB0401.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (message from Richard Sharman on Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:27:30 +0000)
> From: Richard Sharman <richard.sharman@mitel.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:27:30 +0000
> Cc: Richard Sharman <richard.sharman@mitel.com>
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or not.
>
> When running emacs -batch, if a function modifies a buffer and calls
> save-buffer and there is another emacs -batch also updating the same
> file, one of them can call ask-user-about-supersession-threat [in
> userlock.el].
>
> This causes the emacs process to hang because read-char-choice never
> returns. See traceback below.
>
> This happened when running make -j 6 and I changed the scenario to not
> happen, but I wondered if ask-user-about-supersession-threat should be
> act upon variable noninteractive.
>
> Perhaps one is supposed to supply a replacement for
> ask-user-about-supersession-threat if running emacs in batch mode?
Does anyone see a problem with automatically answering NO to that
question in batch mode?
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2016-02-10 18:27 bug#22622: 24.5; ask-user-about-supersession-threat causes emacs -batch to hang Richard Sharman
2016-02-13 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-01-24 1:57 ` Glenn Morris
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