From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: QNX subprocess bug Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:26:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143347200 16624 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2006 04:26:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bbramwel@shaw.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 26 06:26:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNMpg-00052f-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:26:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNMpf-0004WL-L2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNMpK-0004UL-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNMpJ-0004Sw-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNMpI-0004Sk-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FNMqT-0001fi-Kg; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:27:17 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id IGQ19864; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:26:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-241-239.inter.net.il [83.130.241.239]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CZA09808 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:26:00 +0200 (IST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:22:02 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52066 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:22:02 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > It is not a short cut. The reason the pid is represented as a Lisp > integer is that (1) all the slots in a process object have to be Lisp > objects, and (2) Emacs has no way to deal with integer values larger > than a Lisp integer. > > It will not be easy to fix this problem. Since QNX support is not a > high priority for GNU, I think it is up to you to implement the fix. > But since there is no obvious way to fix it, first you'd need to > work out a way that would not cause too much problem in Emacs. Maybe the easiest way to fix this is to use a Lisp float to record the PID.