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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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  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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