From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lawrence mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell and ispell Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 22:06:35 +0100 Organization: funfunfun Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031260485 19035 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2002 21:14:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17n3xa-0004wU-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 23:14:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17n3z4-0006UB-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 17:16:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!m512-mp1.cvx1-a.swa.dial.ntli.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: m512-mp1.cvx1-a.swa.dial.ntli.net (213.105.230.0) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1031260168 57914936 213.105.230.0 (16 [97657]) X-No-Yes: No Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.90 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222) Cancel-Lock: sha1:97n+ql9z7ckCFmLhXnDnGub3Dac= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104520 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1078 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1078 ahall@no-spam-world.std.com wrote: > Suddenly on > GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit) of Tue Jul 17 2001 on sgi01 > both M-x shell, and ispell stopped working with > messages like: > Input file descriptor of shell closed > Input file descriptor of ispell closed > I then noticed that the PID of the processes > had 9 digit numbers, and wondered if that was > causing emacs to lose contact with subprocesses. If the PID was bigger than the variable `most-positive-fixnum', then that might well be the case. If it's possible for you to compile Emacs yourself, you can compile it as a 64-bit executable, which would give you larger buffer sizes (and a larger value for lisp integers), see the file etc/MACHINES for more details on how to do this. -- lawrence mitchell