From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Wasn't this supposed to be fixed? Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:42:35 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4015A5EB.9020208@swipnet.se> References: <40138338.70605@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075160738 22783 80.91.224.253 (26 Jan 2004 23:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 00:45:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlGQ8-00072j-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:45:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlGQ8-00027a-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:45:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlGPs-0001nU-1n for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlGP5-0001Tp-1B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlGOH-0000NW-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:44:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.115.192.53] (helo=mail2.norrnet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlGNe-0007us-JW; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com (stubby.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.94]) by mail2.norrnet.net (BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall) with ESMTP id A31A2D62CC; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:42:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i0R0Ytpi001488; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:34:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19502 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:1938 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19502 Richard Stallman wrote: > The way this is supposed to work is that sigchld_handler is not > supposed to call malloc. However, it was changed to call > strsignal, and that calls malloc. > > I think the best fix is to bring it back to the original design and > move the call to strsignal out of the signal handler. Instead, it can > set another variable; Fcall_process can check that variable and call > strsignal. > > Would you like to implement this? Now checked in, please test. Thanks, Jan D.