Subject: bug#27036: 25.1; Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!!

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:05:51 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 21:17:15 +0300
> 
> I don't see any freezing, though.

That's good.

> >> It's pretty weird, though. Neither octave.el not comint.el reference
> >> inhibit-quit.
> > 
> > According to description, Francesco was editing while
> > inferior-octave-mode was doing something in the background, so it's
> > possible that some foreground code just happened to bind inhibit-quit
> > at the wrong moment.
> 
> Indeed, but what foreground code? The major mode is octave-mode.

If you can reproduce this at will, run under GDB, put a breakpoint at
the line which emits the message, and when it breaks, produce a
backtrace.  I'd expect the offending code to be evident from that,
especially if you also run "xbacktrace" to see the Lisp backtrace.

Thanks.