Apologies for the duplicate. I can confirm I reproduced with a built on branch-27, and applying Robert's patch fixes the issue. Thanks, Matthieu On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 6:05 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > merge 40555 40023 > thanks > > > From: Matthieu Hauglustaine > > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:24:16 +0200 > > > > I've experienced a EXC_BAD_ACCESS when using Emacs 27.0.90 on OS X > > 10.15. > > > > The root cause appears to be an out of bound access on > > proc_decode_coding_system (src/process.c:7988), in > > setup_process_coding_systems() when calling setup_coding_system(). This > > results in an invalid write to coding->id from > > CHECK_CODING_SYSTEM_GET_ID (src/coding.c:5678). [1] for the stacktrace. > > > > On Emacs initialization (init_process_emacs(), src/emacs.c:8234), > > RLIMIT_NOFILE.rlim_cur is set to FD_SETSIZE, and the assumption seem to > > be that this limit will never change for the lifetime of the > > process. proc_decode_coding_system and proc_encode_coding_system are > > declared with a size of FD_SETSIZE (src/process.c:311). > > > > However, on OS X systems, the call to NSURL.getResourceValue:forKey: > > (src/nsfns.c:497), when opening a file, apparently result in a call to > > setrlimit with RLIMIT_NOFILE.rlim_cur > FD_SETSIZE. > > > > Thus, when the number of FDs opened by Emacs is greater than FD_SETSIZE, > > an illegal access is done when make-process is called. > > Thankjs, this is bug#40023. There's a patch there, maybe you could > try it. If the patch works for you, we could install it on the > emacs-27 branch. > >