GNU bug report logs - #12697
24.2; Emacs crashes when using it as the commit editor for git

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net>

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:57:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.2

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: matthew <at> mattleach.net, 12697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12697: 24.2; Emacs crashes when using it as the commit editor for git
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:15:19 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:26:35 +0200
> Cc: 12697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> C-g in emacs -nw is equivalent to SIGINT on the controlling terminal.
> This causes all processes in the same process group to receive SIGINT,
> which includes the parent git process

Shouldn't git block SIGINT when it invokes $EDITOR?

> now that emacs no longer puts itself and the terminal into its own
> process group.

Did we have good reason to stop doing that?
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