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Process list gone wild
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Message #23 received at 7723 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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.
No, of course not. But the fact is that I have only seen this problem
when system resources left are low. That is why I suspect some system
call mixing things up.
From your comment I think you believe that this could happen anywhere
in Emacs, though it is rare. It could be true. I think I have filed a
bug report about blinking cursor that perhaps might be related. For
some reason I do not understand the cursor sometimes starts to blink
very fast.
That problem is reproducible.
>> > 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?
I will try to, thanks.
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