Subject: Re: bug#14473: 24.3; emacs locks up when eshell attempts to display a dialog

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:47:48 +0200

Joseph Mingrone <[email-masked]> writes:

> When working in Eshell, if a dialog such as
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install/dist-set2.png is to
> be displayed, Emacs will lock up and the processor will stay at 100%
> until Emacs is killed.  This also happens when starting with Emacs -Q.

Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs?  If yes, could
you please provide a recipe for how to reproduce it, starting from
"emacs -Q"?

(BTW, the link above is dead.)

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas