GNU bug report logs - #7723
Process list gone wild

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7723: Process list gone wild
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:29:50 +0200

> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:29:31 +0100
> Cc: 7723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> As I have said before: all calls to the system must be carefully checked.

A call to Finsert is not a system call.  And there's nothing
system-call'ish in the fact that a value that was supposed to be a
Lisp string is instead a list of strings.  I would rather suspect some
rare condition in the code that doesn't get handled correctly.

> > If you can reproduce this, put a breakpoint inside list_processes_1,
> > and see which of the calls to Finsert signals the error and why.
> 
> It is not reproducible, of course.

Well, then how about running Emacs under a debugger, and when that
happens again, looking around for the information I requested?

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