Subject: Re: bug#51177: 29.0.50; stop-process on pipes

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:45:05 +0200

Helmut Eller <[email-masked]> writes:

> I would like to request this feature: stop-process, when called with a
> sub-process that is connected via pipes, should use delete_read_fd.  It
> should basically do the same as for sockets.
>
> Currently, stop-process uses some difficult to understand logic and
> eventually sends SIGSTOP to the process.  This might work in theory, but
> in practice it can take a long time before Emacs stops receiving output.

You're supposed to be able to use `continue-process' on the process
after stopping it for a while -- that's not possible if you delete the
fd.  

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