From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bbramwel@shaw.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: QNX subprocess bug
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:26:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umzfdde7a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FNJ18-0005Lx-JR@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:22:02 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:22:02 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> It is not a short cut. The reason the pid is represented as a Lisp
> integer is that (1) all the slots in a process object have to be Lisp
> objects, and (2) Emacs has no way to deal with integer values larger
> than a Lisp integer.
>
> It will not be easy to fix this problem. Since QNX support is not a
> high priority for GNU, I think it is up to you to implement the fix.
> But since there is no obvious way to fix it, first you'd need to
> work out a way that would not cause too much problem in Emacs.
Maybe the easiest way to fix this is to use a Lisp float to record the
PID.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-26 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-25 5:34 QNX subprocess bug Bob Bramwell
2006-03-26 0:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-26 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-03-27 8:35 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-27 22:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-31 3:11 ` Richard Stallman
2006-03-26 4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-03 18:00 bob
2006-04-04 22:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-05 3:47 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-05 9:01 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-04-05 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-05 19:06 ` Richard Stallman
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