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From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Starting a subprocess in stopped state
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 10:41:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32a9c3d5-2fb1-b6ab-2521-15fae40f002d@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bmr6fmch.fsf@gnu.org>

> Also, not reading the Emacs end of the pipe, while the process runs is
> probably going to get is to undefined behavior in some situations,
> especially with multithreaded processes.

I don't think it's undefined behavior -- you may just hang (one or more 
threads of) the subprocess.  Of course, then it is stopped, much as if 
by SIGSTOP.

Davis

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-08 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-02 19:04 Starting a subprocess in stopped state Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-05  7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-06  5:42   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-05-06  7:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 12:24       ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-07 17:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 17:25       ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-07 17:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 18:05         ` Andreas Schwab
2017-05-08 16:41       ` Davis Herring [this message]
2017-05-08 16:46         ` Eli Zaretskii

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