Subject: bug#3218 closed by Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#3218: Oops)

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Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 01:55:07 +0000

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#3218: 23.0.92; Problem in accept-process-output?

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Subject: Re: bug#3218: Oops
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
To: David Abrahams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 21:49:44 -0400

> This bug should be closed; it is due to mis-written advice that I added to
> accept-process-output.  If anything needs to be fixed in  emacs, the docs
> for that function ought to be explicit that the MSECS  parameter must be
> integral (not floating point).

Actually, it shouldn't be used, as explained in the docstring:

   The millisec argument is obsolete and should be avoided.

-- Stefan

Subject: 23.0.92; Problem in accept-process-output?
From: David Abrahams <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 04:08:56 -0600

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the [email-masked] mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Opening an IMAP server in gnus.  Curiously, this doesn't happen in an
emacs started cleanly, so I'm not really sure what's going on, but this
backtrace ought to help

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integerp 0.01)
  ad-Orig-accept-process-output(#<process imap<5>> 0.01 0.01 nil)
  accept-process-output(#<process imap<5>> 0 100)
  imap-wait-for-tag(289 nil)
  imap-send-command-wait("NOOP" nil)
  byte-code("��\"��=�Ƃ	�)�" [buffer status imap-error imap-send-command-wait "NOOP" OK t nil] 4)
  imap-ping-server()
  imap-opened(" *nnimap* Mail")
  imap-open("localhost" nil network login " *nnimap* Mail")
  nnimap-open-connection("Mail")
  nnimap-open-server("Mail" ((nnimap-address "localhost") (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-authenticator login)))
  byte-code("	A@	AA\"�" [open-server-function gnus-command-method] 3)
  gnus-open-server((nnimap "Mail" (nnimap-address "localhost") (nnimap-stream network) (nnimap-authenticator login)))
  gnus-server-open-server("nnimap:Mail")
  call-interactively(gnus-server-open-server nil nil)

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In GNU Emacs 23.0.92.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS apple-appkit-949.43)
 of 2009-04-26 on black.local
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