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has caused the report #611591,
regarding emacs23: hangs while waiting for child on hurd-i386
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It looks like there may be a problem with wait_for_termination() on
GNU/Hurd systems.
Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> writes:
> emacs23 would sometimes hang while waiting for a child. This is because
> wait_for_termination assumes that on all BSD-like systems kill() returns
> -1 on zombies. It happens that GNU/Hurd is a BSD-like system, but its
> kill() returns 0 on zombies.
>
> The attached patch fixes that.
--- a/src/sysdep.c 2011-01-31 01:10:24.000000000 +0100
+++ b/src/sysdep.c 2011-01-31 01:10:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
while (1)
{
#ifdef subprocesses
-#if defined (BSD_SYSTEM) || defined (HPUX)
+#if (defined (BSD_SYSTEM) || defined (HPUX)) && !defined(__GNU__)
/* Note that kill returns -1 even if the process is just a zombie now.
But inevitably a SIGCHLD interrupt should be generated
and child_sig will do wait3 and make the process go away. */
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Rob Browning
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