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26.1; Sentinels are sometimes unexpectedly only invoked in script mode

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
Cc: 63078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63078: 26.1; Sentinels are sometimes unexpectedly only invoked in script mode
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:52:24 +0200

On Apr 26 2023, Markus Triska wrote:

> In contrast, the following invocation produces, in the echo area, the
> message "process status is: exit", and Emacs hangs unexpectedly:
>
>     $ emacs -Q -l proc.el --eval "(f)"

If you C-g at this point and look at *Messsages* you will see that the
message "process status is: exit" has been repeated a lot of times.  So
the issue is that the sentinal is being reentered ad infinitum,
preventing to make progress.

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