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Subject: Re: process problem with 20.0?
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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 1997 15:27:34 -0800
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Jeff Miller <jmiller@bayserve.net> writes:

> Were any asynchronous process problems reported with 20.0?

> ( while (equal 'run (process-status)) ;; this loop appears to be where xemacs
> (sit-for abit)                        ;; gets stuck
> )

It's fixed in recent 20.1s and 19.15s.  In the 20.0 release sit-for
didn't cause processes to make forward progress, so you'd see this kind
of looping.

Btw, the typical thing to use is (accept-process-output nil abit)
instead of (sit-for abit) for a process loop like that.

> I know this is possibly one of the worst problem reports ever submitted
> but I am not allowed to bring code out of the building. So I'm going from
> memory.  Nor am I allowed to bring in "beta" code to see if the problem
> has already been fixed.  

Made sense to me!  Thanks for the report.

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