Subject: Re: bug#39075: 28.0.50; Emacs hangs on 100% CPU and grows beyond bounds in shell-mode

From: Pieter van Oostrum <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:41:22 +0100

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Pieter van Oostrum wrote:
>
>> I propose to amend the test also, so that it would have caught this
>> error (by hanging).
>
> I haven't read anything else, so take this with a grain of salt, but
> tests that hang (rather than just fail) are a PITA for automated testing.

That is true, but the test is there to test the fix, which makes it no longer hang. And as these are in the same commit, the test should never hang, unless somebody breaks the fix later. But then hanging could occur with any bug.
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