>>>>> On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:25:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Carsten >>>>> Bormann) said:
> While typing input (apparently often related to file/process > operations, such as minibuffer completions of file names), emacs > occasionally (say, once a day in heavy usage) hangs and uses high > CPU (most of which is system time). Attaching GDB says: > #11 0x000e0850 in poll_for_input () > #12 0x00213930 in alarm_signal_handler () > #13 <signal handler called> > #14 0x90006a8c in szone_free () > #15 0x03200000 in ?? () > #16 0x9005d7dc in getgr_internal () > #17 0x9005d070 in getgr () > #18 0x0013ed6c in Ffile_attributes () I've once posted a (not complete) list of Darwin library functions that may call malloc-related functions but are not protected by BLOCK_INPUT: localtime, gmtime, ctime, opendir, getc, getaddrinfo, fwrite, mkstemp fclose, closedir, freeaddrinfo, mktime (not used as of 2004-09) (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-09/msg00074.html) I cannot detect `getgrgid' as such a function, but I guess this is due to the difference in name service backends (NIS, LDAP, ...). We can put BLOCK_INPUTs around every getpw* and getgr* call, but if the problem only occurs on Darwin, creating wrapper functions is an alternative way. Does anyone know the situation on other systems? YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug