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Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21 |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:53:43 -0500 |
> Steven Tamm <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > [...] P.S. Andrew, is vfork fixed in Jaguar? If so, we should
> > probably conditionalize its removal
>
> The redirection of vfork to fork is there to solve a problem described
> by the following comment in src/s/darwin.h (see also the archive of
> emacs-pretest-bug).
>
> /* The following solves the problem that Emacs hangs when evaluating
> (make-comint "test0" "/nodir/nofile" nil "") when /nodir/nofile
> does not exist. */
> #undef HAVE_WORKING_VFORK
> #define vfork fork
> #define DONT_REOPEN_PTY
>
> I just tried removing these three lines and Emacs (in fact OS X!) still
> hangs when evaluating that expression.
Does it really freeze the kernel or just the UI or just Emacs ?
If it freezes the kernel, post it to bugtraq as a DoS issue and it
should get fixed within a few days.
Stefan
- Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Andrew Choi, 2002/11/23
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Jason Rumney, 2002/11/24
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Andrew Choi, 2002/11/24
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Jason Rumney, 2002/11/25
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Steven Tamm, 2002/11/25
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Andrew Choi, 2002/11/25
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Steven Tamm, 2002/11/26
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Andrew Choi, 2002/11/26
- fork v vfork (was Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21), Steven Tamm, 2002/11/26
- Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Jason Rumney, 2002/11/26
Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Steven Tamm, 2002/11/24
Re: Mac OS X: Rebuild Require after Security Update 2002-11-21, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen, 2002/11/25