21.2.2 call-proceess fails on symllink (Debian Java)

[Jari Aalto+mail.linux]

In GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-02-13 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-linux --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib 
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena 
--without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: en_US.iso88591
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:


Under Debian, the java interpreter is installed in

    jaalto@cante:~/elisp/rc$ which java
    /usr/bin/java

and this is a symlink to:

    jaalto@cante:~/elisp/rc$ chase --verbose /usr/bin/java
    /usr/bin/java
    -> /etc/alternatives/java
    -> /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/bin/java
    -> .java_wrapper
    /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/bin/.java_wrapper

Trying to use call-process causes an infinite loop.
It can only be stopped with C-g


    ;;  This won't return
    (call-process "/usr/bin/java" 
                  nil (current-buffer) nil "-version")

    ;;  This won't return
    (call-process "/usr/lib/j2se/1.3/bin/java" 
                  nil (current-buffer) nil "-version")


The last one, .java_wrapper, cannot be called directly, because it is
controlled by "/usr/lib/j2se/1.3/bin/java".


Jari

Recent input:
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> 
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