bug#16152: 24.3; Windows Emacs crash from pty EOF

bug#16152: 24.3; Windows Emacs crash from pty EOF

[Christopher Wellons]

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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

This issue was originally discovered here:

https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode/issues/38

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bug#16152: 24.3; Windows Emacs crash from pty EOF

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christopher Wellons <wellons@nullprogram.com>
> 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.

bug#16152: 24.3; Windows Emacs crash from pty EOF

[Noam Postavsky]

Closing, as I don't see any reason to leave this open. OP reported a
crash scenario which was fixed; ptys can't be implemented on Windows
because Windows doesn't provide support for such a thing.