Re: process output has become a bit random...

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> In article <x5vfg10ya1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> >>  After intalling auctex and preview-latex, I tried C-c C-p
> >>  C-d on circ.tex (lang. env. is German), but couldn't
> >>  reproduce the problem.
> 
> > Rats.  You have the threshold for the shrinking significantly lower
> > than readmax in process.c?
> 
> Yes.  But, I found that sub-shell runs in en_US.UTF-8 locale
> on Fedora even if I invoked Emacs with LANG=de_DE.iso88591.
> And, thus, the process coding system is set to utf-8 which
> doesn't trigger shrinking.
> 
> Anyway, I found a bug in decode_coding_string (incorrect
> setting of coding->consumed, and etc), and just installed a
> fix.  Could you please try with the latest CVS HEAD code? 

Could detect nothing wrong now.  However, last time I played with
process.c (and got bitten in the process) it took months until
somebody tracked down an obscure case that actually triggered the bug
(probably the one that you fixed now: I reverted my change without
understanding what could have been wrong).

Let's hope for the best this time.

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