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26.1; term.el broken on macOS

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Constantine Vetoshev <vetoshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 32338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32338: 26.1; term.el broken on macOS
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:35:10 -0400

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Constantine Vetoshev <vetoshev <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 5. When I run Emacs 26.1 under lldb, everything works! No crashes, no
> error messages.

Ugh, one of those.

> After copying term.el from 25.3 into 26.1 (and deleting term.elc),
> 26.1 still exhibits the bug.
>
> Something must have changed in the macOS-specific pieces of Emacs
> between 25.3 and 26.1 which started causing this crash.

Okay, I'm going to guess it's the change to use vfork.  Here's a patch
which should undo that change (I can't test it on macOS, and it's just
assembled from git log --grep=vfork, so I may have missed something).
Try it out and see if it avoids the crash.

[0001-Revert-vfork-for-Darwin-changes.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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