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funny interaction between emacs-znol and znol?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Ding)
Thu Apr 4 14:43:20 1996
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 14:39:17 EST
From: Eric Ding <ericding@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I'm using the zwgc.el and znol.el packages originally written by Raul
Acevedo and now residing in my locker =b. They work fine on DEC's, but on
NetBSD, running M-x znol freezes up my emacs and causes it to go into
diskwait. Could someone check this out? The znol.el package is in
/mit/ericding/elisp/zwgc. I'm trying to debug it, but don't know enough
about znol/emacs internals to figure out what's going on.
Sometimes, killing the zwgc process frees up emacs by making znol exit with
status 1. Other times, it has no effect. Someone else had this thought:
> maybe BSD puts the znol process tosleep mistakenly and neverwakes it up?
> that might explain how killing zwgc makes it exit; that's a signal
> condition. but normally, proceses don't signal their termination, so I
> think the znol process might be just sleeping permanently or is buggy and
> is getting into a loop somehwere..
I'd appreciate any ideas/investigation...
Thanks,
Eric
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