From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:53:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211261453.gAQErhd07777@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2znrxcekw.fsf@owlbear.local
> Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com> writes:
>
> > [...] P.S. Andrew, is vfork fixed in Jaguar? If so, we should
> > probably conditionalize its removal
>
> The redirection of vfork to fork is there to solve a problem described
> by the following comment in src/s/darwin.h (see also the archive of
> emacs-pretest-bug).
>
> /* The following solves the problem that Emacs hangs when evaluating
> (make-comint "test0" "/nodir/nofile" nil "") when /nodir/nofile
> does not exist. */
> #undef HAVE_WORKING_VFORK
> #define vfork fork
> #define DONT_REOPEN_PTY
>
> I just tried removing these three lines and Emacs (in fact OS X!) still
> hangs when evaluating that expression.
Does it really freeze the kernel or just the UI or just Emacs ?
If it freezes the kernel, post it to bugtraq as a DoS issue and it
should get fixed within a few days.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-26 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <m2bs4g9srx.fsf@owlbear.local>
2002-11-23 23:49 ` Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21 Jason Rumney
2002-11-24 19:58 ` Andrew Choi
2002-11-24 21:03 ` Jason Rumney
2002-11-25 23:56 ` Steven Tamm
2002-11-26 0:18 ` Jason Rumney
2002-11-26 1:19 ` Andrew Choi
2002-11-26 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-11-26 16:31 ` Steven Tamm
2002-11-26 17:29 ` Andrew Choi
2002-11-26 17:45 ` fork v vfork (was Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21) Steven Tamm
2002-11-24 20:37 ` Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21 Steven Tamm
2002-11-24 21:58 ` Andrew Choi
2002-11-24 23:06 ` Steven Tamm
2002-11-25 7:40 ` Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
2002-11-25 8:10 ` Andrew Choi
2002-11-26 11:15 ` Richard Stallman
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