GNU bug report logs - #15129
24.3.50; Emacs broken on FreeBSD in/after r113315

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ashish.is <at> lostca.se (Ashish SHUKLA)

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:31:04 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 15129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ashish SHUKLA <ashish.is <at> lostca.se>
Cc: 15129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs broken on FreeBSD in/after r113315
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:16:37 -0700

I looked into this a bit more.

As I understand it, FreeBSD 8 posix_openpt supports O_CLOEXEC
but this is undocumented, FreeBSD 9 posix_openpt rejects
attempts to use O_CLOEXEC, and future FreeBSD posix_openpt
will support O_CLOEXEC again.  See:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2011-November/046295.html
http://bogomips.org/ruby.git/patch/?id=452bf3b9c954d770ccb704cb9f5470f515e00584

What a mess, huh?  I installed two patches as trunk
bzr 113963 and 113964 to try to work around FreeBSD's
flip-flopping on this issue.  Please let us know if they
fix your problem.
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