From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: wait_reading_process_ouput hangs in certain cases (w/ patches) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:23:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83tvxwkexg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lgjz8eiy.fsf@gnu.org> <831slp98ut.fsf@gnu.org> <83tvyj62qg.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2tetf90.fsf@gnu.org> <5150d198-8dd3-9cf4-5914-b7e945294452@binary-island.eu> <83tvy7s6wi.fsf@gnu.org> <83inemrqid.fsf@gnu.org> <398f8d17-b727-d5d6-4a31-772448c7ca0d@binary-island.eu> <56e722a6-95a4-0e42-185c-f26845d4f4bf@binary-island.eu> <21237e45-a353-92f9-01ec-7b51640d2031@cs.ucla.edu> <83vaickfu2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510676598 19805 195.159.176.226 (14 Nov 2017 16:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ml_emacs-lists@binary-island.eu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eggert@cs.ucla.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 17:23:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdzR-0004Zs-8J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:23:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdzY-0007tW-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdzJ-0007pc-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdzG-0000jQ-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdzF-0000jL-VO; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:22:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3535 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eEdzF-0007l1-BG; Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:22:57 -0500 In-reply-to: <83vaickfu2.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:03:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220184 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:03:33 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: ml_emacs-lists@binary-island.eu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Second, I don't leaving a known bug in the code, even if the bug is > > unlikely. Too often, these extreme cases occur anyway (e.g., due to a > > network attack). I'd prefer a slightly-more-complicated solution where > > the bug cannot occur. It can't be that hard to fix. > > Please describe such a solution, or show the code. And also the problem you are talking about, because I'm not sure I understand it well enough. Thanks.