Subject: bug#43834: 27.1; [PATCH] Sentinels under X and command line

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:18:47 +0300

> From: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 07:32:39 -0400
> 
> xsmfns.c adds a "keyboard" read descriptor for /tmp/.ICE-unix which process.c
> won't see when it calls compute_non_keyboard_wait_mask() in
> wait_reading_process_output().  So make that read descriptor "non keyboard",
> and it will no longer block status_notify() from running.

Thank you.

Can you explain how the descriptor for /tmp/.ICE-unix is related to
running arbitrary subprocesses at startup?