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Subject: Re: [andrew.maguire@ge.com: Emacs 22.1 hung after delete-process]
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dhruva wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have put it a fix that seems to solve this problem
> !         if (WaitForSingleObject (cp->thrd, 1000) != WAIT_OBJECT_0)
>   

Why would WaitSingleObject act differently depending on which compiler
was use to compile Emacs? It is a system call. I think the problem lies
elsewhere, and this is just a workaround (which could itself lead to
indefinite hanging of Emacs).