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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 56025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, spwhitton <at> email.arizona.edu, kbrown <at> cornell.edu
Subject: bug#56025: 29.0.50; em-extpipe-test-2 times out on EMBA and Cygwin
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:13:46 -0700

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On 6/24/2022 10:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 56025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:03:13 -0700
>>
>> POSIX standard says[1] (thanks to Eliot Moss on the Cygwin mailing list
>> for citing this passage):
>>
>>     When [EOF is] received, all the bytes waiting to be read are
>>     immediately passed to the process without waiting for a <newline>, and
>>     the EOF is discarded. Thus, if there are no bytes waiting (that is,
>>     the EOF occurred at the beginning of a line), a byte count of zero
>>     shall be returned from the read(), representing an end-of-file
>>     indication.
> 
> Perhaps some reference to this should also be in the comments.

How about this patch? I added a reference to the specific section of the 
POSIX specification so that it's (hopefully) easy for people to look up 
if they need further details.

[0001-When-closing-an-Eshell-process-target-send-EOF-three.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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