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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Message #14 received at 12697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: matthew <at> mattleach.net, 12697 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12697: 24.2;
	Emacs crashes when using it as the commit editor for git
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:39:55 +0200

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

>> 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?

Maybe.  Perhaps the OP should report it to the git list.

>> now that emacs no longer puts itself and the terminal into its own
>> process group.
>
> Did we have good reason to stop doing that?

IMHO no.  All the BSD_PGRPS stuff was removed on the premise that it
wasn't used any more, but disabling BSD_PGRPS in s/gnu-linux.h was
already questionable.

Andreas.

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