Subject: Re: bug#13086: 24.2.50; Emacs seems to hang at w32proc.c:1126

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:57:54 -0800

On 12/06/12 12:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> But that already happened when we are calling waitpid.

Not necessarily.  Sometimes Emacs does a waitpid before
killing the child.  For example, the waitpid of
call_process_cleanup might precede the EMACS_KILLPG
of call_process_kill.

> It doesn't make sense to be that cautious in an Emacs compiled without
> assertions.

Well, as I said, I'd rather that the bug got fixed.
But if it's a common bug on Windows platforms, and we can't
easily fix it, perhaps we should add some #ifdef WINDOWSNT
code that ignores the problem along the lines of your suggestion.