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#33050
27.0.50; [macOS] Problem with process input with process-connection-type nil
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Reported by: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:04:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 27.0.50
Done: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
> Cc: fitzsim <at> fitzsim.org, 33050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alan <at> idiocy.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:10:25 +0300
>
> On 25/10/2018 20:29 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
> >> Cc: fitzsim <at> fitzsim.org, 33050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alan <at> idiocy.org
> >> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:10:06 +0300
> >>
> >> > I'm probably missing something: why are you still trying to find a
> >> > solution, when one was already found? What's wrong with setting
> >> > process-connection-type non-nil in this case, at least for Darwin?
> >>
> >> Yes, setting p-c-t to t worked from the start, but it's just a
> >> workaround - there's still problem with p-c-t nil.
> >>
> >> I'm currently running with this patch, which is based on Alan's fix in
> >> callproc.c (call_process() had the same problem on Darwin).
> >
> > I don't understand why: using nil process-connection-type for programs
> > that prompt the user is a bug anyway.
>
> I think these are separate problems.
They are, indeed; and I thought this bug report is about the problem
with ldapsearch. If you think the way we start subprocesses on macOS
needs fixing, it should be a separate bug, most probably with a
different urgency and severity.
> So it again became possible that we call setsid() after vfork(), and
> this I believe is the root case of the current problem.
Once again, I believe the root cause is that process-connection-type
has the wrong value.
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