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29.0.50; em-extpipe-test-2 times out on EMBA and Cygwin

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> email.arizona.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 56025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56025: 29.0.50; em-extpipe-test-2 times out on EMBA and Cygwin
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 20:58:24 -0700

On 6/30/2022 8:52 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Normally, Eshell starts each process using ptys to control them. 
> However, the above Elisp code tells Eshell to use a pipe for "rev"[1]. 
> I'm not totally clear on all the subtleties here, but it seems to me 
> that it would make more sense for rev to use a pipe for its stdin and a 
> pty for its stdout. That's not possible with subprocesses in Emacs 
> though (as far as I know).

Oh, I forgot to mention that bug#56013 might be related to this in some 
way, since it exhibits some problems with ptys when used in Eshell 
pipelines too.

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