Subject: Re: bug#31214: hang in Faccept_process_output

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:53:52 -0400

Glenn Morris wrote:

>> Then maybe we should pass a non-nil timeout to accept-process-output,
>> and/or a non-nil last argument.
>>
>> IOW, I'm not sure the bug is not in the test itself.
>
> Is it not a standard usage (start a process, and while it's live, accept
> output from it)?

In fact, doesn't this imply that any use of the form
(accept-process-output process) may hang Emacs forever, which seems bad?