From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16152: 24.3; Windows Emacs crash from pty EOF Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:42:20 +0200 Message-ID: <83ppoydkhf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a9g2zv66.fsf@susie.zeus.nullprogram.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387132990 5498 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2013 18:43:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16152@debbugs.gnu.org To: Christopher Wellons Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 15 19:43:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGep-0007ao-Nq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 19:43:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGep-0000Tu-DO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGeh-0000Tj-LZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGec-00049r-AP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGec-00049l-70 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGeb-0002Lh-Ns for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:43:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:43:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16152 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16152-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16152.13871329448981 (code B ref 16152); Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16152) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Dec 2013 18:42:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51945 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGe0-0002Kn-3s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:34080) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VsGdw-0002Kb-Oc for 16152@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 13:42:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MXV00G0022FWU00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 16152@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:42:19 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MXV00G602MDVO50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:42:13 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87a9g2zv66.fsf@susie.zeus.nullprogram.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:82020 Archived-At: > From: Christopher Wellons > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:48:17 -0500 > > The following expression causes Emacs to crash in Windows 7 (and > probably other versions) with Emacs 24.3.1: > > (with-temp-buffer > (start-process "crash-emacs-bug" (current-buffer) nil) > (process-send-eof)) > > The `start-process' call here is creating a pty process (according to > the docstring). The exact version string is (official GNU build): > > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN PTYs are not supported on MS-Windows. I added some protection so that Emacs doesn't crash (trunk revision 115538), but I doubt if Emacs will do anything useful when start-process is called that way on Windows. > This issue was originally discovered here: > > https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode/issues/38 I don't use skeeto, so I have no idea what it tries to do in this case. So I cannot offer any advice for how to make skeeto work on Windows in this case, nor tell if that is even possible.