GNU bug report logs - #31214
hang in Faccept_process_output

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in versions 27.0.50, 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 31214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 31214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31214: hang in Faccept_process_output
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?
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