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Re: funny interaction between emacs-znol and znol?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lopes)
Thu Apr 4 17:49:20 1996
To: Eric Ding <ericding@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU, bug-olc@MIT.EDU, bert@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 04 Apr 1996 14:39:17 -0500.
<9604041939.AA19837@m4-167-1.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:45:09 EST
From: Chris Lopes <lopes@MIT.EDU>
hey
i have this same bug when using eolcr, the emacs client for olc
consultants... i can't run it with the zephyr client stuff... i have to
shut it off, because if i do run it... emacs just hangs forever...
this is emacs19, btw
> 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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