From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: process-attributes patch
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:11:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8womvo1u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tz7bup30.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:34:43 +0900
>
> > I generally agree with the change, but I think it comes a bit late.
> > Can't it wait for 23.2?
>
> The only problem with delaying name changes past a release is that
> user code starts to use old name.
Right, so we should at least change the name of the function.
> The only potential problem I see with this change is compilation
> errors on DOS and W32, but anything there would pretty much be trivial
> to fix for someone who actually has those platforms. There doesn't
> seem all that much scope for subtle problems. [Eli found one problem;
> the other thing which may be an issue is using pid_t in the "no
> subprocesses" branch of the ifdef, but that's easy enough to fix.]
Since the "no subprocesses" branch is currently used only by the DOS
port, I can say that there's no problem with pid_t: the DOS port
supports the pid_t type. ("No subprocesses" does not mean "no
processes".)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 10:13 process-attributes patch Miles Bader
2009-02-03 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-03 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-03 22:34 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-04 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-02-04 6:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
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