From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: compile kills background jobs undocumentedly Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:47:38 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adc0lfnp.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056930866 14571 80.91.224.249 (29 Jun 2003 23:54:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 30 01:54:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Wm00-0003mo-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:54:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Wlzy-0008Br-7m for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Wlzk-0007rw-1k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Wlwr-0006XA-7I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19WlwN-00064S-GT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Wlvw-0003US-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:50:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Wlq1-00034t-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:44:05 +0200 Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5423 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5423 $ emacs --no-site-file -q -nw -eval '(compile "sleep 88&echo $!")' But then ps aux shows you have killed sleep already, without waiting my bleeding 88 seconds. OK, but at least explain what you are doing in C-h f compile, and Info. BTW, in Info To kill the compilation process, do `M-x kill-compilation'. Ok, do mention C-c C-k.