From: Josh <josh@foxtail.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>, 14553@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14553: 24.3.50; C-g doesn't break inf-loop
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:17:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANdFEAGiRUUt6_DCK-pSKivNYoxR3cggbwQU+v47WiKe4SYCzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D33439.9030403@cornell.edu>
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 6/4/2013 2:10 AM, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Start Emacs with the -Q option.
>> Eval the form: (while t)
>>
>> Then I get unable to break it. So is Emacs 24.3. This may happen
>> only on Cygwin, though. It makes me hard to debug a code suspected
>> to have an infinite loop.
> I can confirm that this happens on Cygwin but not on GNU/Linux. This may
> just reflect the fact that Cygwin doesn't have SIGIO. Maybe someone who
> understands how Emacs handles keyboard input can weigh in on this and
> suggest a workaround.
FWIW, I am able to successfully interrupt that loop via C-g on my
Cygwin system, which was configured with the --with-w32 flag and built
from yesterday's trunk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-04 6:10 bug#14553: 24.3.50; C-g doesn't break inf-loop Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-07-02 20:12 ` Ken Brown
2013-07-02 23:17 ` Josh [this message]
2013-07-03 0:34 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-07-03 11:13 ` Ken Brown
2014-03-23 6:27 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-09-30 15:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 0:01 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-10-01 0:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-10 11:14 ` bug#14553: [cygwin] C-g doesn't interrupt (while t) Stefan Kangas
2024-01-10 16:31 ` Ken Brown
2024-01-10 17:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 5:29 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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