GNU bug report logs - #10674
24.0.92; cmdproxy.exe fork-bomb

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Packages: emacs, w32;

Reported by: sjm <at> spamcop.net

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:50:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #65 received at 10674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Simon Morgan <sjm <at> spamcop.net>
Cc: 10674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10674: 24.0.92; cmdproxy.exe fork-bomb
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:46:30 +0200
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:25:15 +0000
> From: Simon Morgan <sjm <at> spamcop.net>
> CC: 10674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Simon, please tell here if it fixes the problem, and I will then
> > commit the changes to the development repo.
> 
> No, it doesn't. If I copy it to a directory by itself in the root of C 
> then it doesn't fork-bomb when I run cmdproxy directly, but if I copy it 
> to my emacs bin directory and do customize-browse, it still goes mental.

Then please step with a debugger starting at line 555 of cmdproxy.c,
print the values of the variables involved there, and tell me what I
missed.

Thanks.




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