Re: cvs emacs stalls with: error in process filter

[Klaus Zeitler]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
    Richard> 
    Richard> accept-process-output ought to allow quitting, and looking at the
    Richard> code in wait_reading_process_input, I would say it does:
    Richard> 
    Richard> 
    Richard>       /* If calling from keyboard input, do not quit
    Richard>     since we want to return C-g as an input character.
    Richard>     Otherwise, do pending quit if requested.  */
    Richard>       if (XINT (read_kbd) >= 0)
    Richard>    QUIT;
    Richard> 
    Richard> Can you figure out why accept-process-output fails to check
    Richard> for quit when you use it?

the QUIT macro checks Vinhibit_quit and I've seen in the debugger that
this one's set to t. Some other function (timer-event-handler?) probably
disables inhibit-quit. Here's an xbacktrace:

(gdb) xbacktrace
"accept-process-output"
"clearcase-ct-accept-process-output"
"clearcase-ct-start-cleartool"
"clearcase-ct-blocking-call"
"clearcase-vprop-read-properties"
"clearcase-vprop-get-properties"
0x809b8ac0 PVEC_COMPILED
"mapcar"
"clearcase-vprop-timer-function"
"apply"
"byte-code"
"timer-event-handler"


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