GNU bug report logs - #13475
24.2.91; accept-process-output hangs emacs on killed sub-process

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Found in versions 24.2.91, 25.0.95

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>, 13475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13475: 24.2.91; accept-process-output hangs emacs on killed sub-process
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:37:42 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> On 07.10.2019 6:19, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> By "was closed" here, I think what's meant is "was closed before TIMEOUT
>> expired".  If the connection is closed before the call, we wait for the
>> entire timeout.
>
> And return nil? That sounds kinda brittle, as an API.

Yeah, you have to check whether the process is alive before calling the
function if you're looping over it.

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