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Subject: Re: master af152ffab1: Don't freeze if the compositing manager crashes
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There are a few places in Emacs that wait for similar reasons, so my
suggestion is to do this like they do, i.e. by calling
wait_reading_process_output.  The advantage is that we let other code
and other threads to run while we wait.