From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: spinuvit@gmail.com, 14297@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14297: 24.3.50; emacs subprocesses don't exit on "exit"
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 00:45:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egeanldr.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5191324D.7070106@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 13 May 2013 11:34:53 -0700")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On second thought, please forget my patch. get_child_status will abort
> anyway, if the bug that I hypothesized occurs, so my patch isn't needed.
>
> On 05/13/13 10:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> How about this alternative idea: write a replacement waitpid, which
>> will check if it is called by someone other than our main thread, and
>> with its first argument negative, and then produce a backtrace or some
>> message to stderr? Would that work to trap calls to waitpid from GTK?
>
> That could well work, yes, and it might be worth trying if we see
> the right symptoms. But since get_child_status is not aborting I
> don't think we're seeing the right symptoms.
The problem here seemed to be with Gtk under Kubuntu. Is this still a
problem, or has it gone away during the last two years?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-25 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-28 12:19 bug#14297: 24.3.50; emacs subprocesses don't exit on "exit" Vitalie Spinu
2013-04-28 17:26 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-28 18:30 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-04-29 0:28 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-29 0:34 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-29 12:39 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-04-29 15:49 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-29 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-29 18:41 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-04-29 18:53 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-29 19:10 ` Glenn Morris
2013-04-29 22:36 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-04-29 23:42 ` Glenn Morris
2013-05-13 4:38 ` Paul Eggert
2013-05-13 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-13 16:58 ` Paul Eggert
2013-05-13 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-13 18:34 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-25 23:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2015-12-26 0:19 ` Vitalie Spinu
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