GNU bug report logs - #10483
24.0.92; cperl-indent-exp hangs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:04:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Found in versions 25.0.95, 24.0.92

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #64 received at 10483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, haj <at> posteo.de
Subject: Re: bug#10483: [PATCH] cperl-mode: Avoid endless loop
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 14:09:37 +0200

On Sep 04 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> But the advantage of a loop is that you can do something while you
> wait.  Whereas if you expose waitpid to Lisp, the Lisp program which
> calls it will be parked inside the call, and the entire Emacs session
> will stall.  Or what am I missing?

It doesn't make sense to expose a waitpid-like function to Lisp, as the
Emacs process primitives are already much more elegant.

Andreas.

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