From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with signal-process
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:09:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqi4kai6.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389461139-20249-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> In some environments (at least Hurd), process-attributes is
> unimplimented and always returns nil. This ends up causing test
> failures (see e.g. id:87a9ffofsc.fsf@zancas.localnet).
>
> Historically and according to POSIX 1003.1-2001, a signal of 0 can be
> used to check the validity of a pid. This seems less heinous than
> parsing the output of ps(1).
pushed, along with some fiddling with debian emacs packaging, as
debian/0.17-3
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-13 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 23:26 another bug fix release: 0.15.2, in progress david
2013-01-29 23:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] test: delay watchdog checks in emacs david
2014-01-01 15:58 ` David Bremner
2014-01-11 2:36 ` [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with kill(1) David Bremner
2014-01-11 10:14 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-01-11 17:25 ` [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with signal-process David Bremner
2014-01-11 18:50 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-01-13 0:09 ` David Bremner [this message]
2013-01-29 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] NEWS: News for 0.15.2 david
2013-01-30 0:37 ` another bug fix release: 0.15.2, in progress Tomi Ollila
2013-02-10 1:17 ` David Bremner
2013-02-10 13:19 ` [Spam-verdenking][english 100%] " Robert Mast
2013-02-10 13:44 ` David Bremner
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