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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
Cc: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>,
	 Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>,
	help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin/emacs: writing to child signal FD: Bad file descriptor
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 20:16:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgpgtvig.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1aslgmf.fsf@logand.com> (Tomas Hlavaty's message of "Sat, 04 Dec 2021 13:05:44 +0100")

Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> There is something seriously wrong with C-g.  It is very dangerous.
>
> Emacs often crashes for me after trying to break blocking operation
> using C-g twice.  It just prints a list of threads and crashes.  This
> has been happening for a long time; I guess since introduction of
> threads.  It probably has something to do with disruption of blocking
> network operations or garbage collection.
>
> Two weeks ago, it even truncated ~/.emacs to 0 size.  This happened
> once so far.
>
> All with emacs -nw.
>
> Tomas

This is a very serious problem.  Have you reported a bug?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-04 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-04  1:12 /usr/local/bin/emacs: writing to child signal FD: Bad file descriptor Hongyi Zhao
2021-12-04  2:32 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-04  3:26   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-12-04  3:32     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-12-04 12:05     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-04 12:16       ` Po Lu [this message]
2021-12-04 13:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 20:37         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-12-04 20:44           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 21:32             ` Tomas Hlavaty

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