Yes. It has been gone for me for long.

On 26 December 2015 at 00:45, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> 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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