[8481] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.3P: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (acevedo@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sat Oct 26 20:00:53 1991
From: acevedo@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 91 20:00:40 -0400
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: eolcr-testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
System name: tailgunner
Type and version: KN01 7.3P
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What were you trying to do?
I was running eolcr and was waiting for a process to finish
execution.
What's wrong:
Emacs doesn't seem to know that the process has finished. For
example, if I hit `u' to update the OLC queue (which forks off a
process), Emacs doesn't recognize that the process has exited
unless I type a key, like "Shift" or "Meta" or anything.
What should have happened:
Emacs should recognize the process exited without waiting for
input.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
M-x emacs-version:
GNU Emacs 18.57.132 of Wed Aug 7 1991 on paris (berkeley-unix)
I've actually already reported this a while ago, and I'm not
sure what the status of this bug is. I know jik talked to rms
about this, but I forget what happened after that. Obviously
the bug hasn't been fixed in emacs 18.57.
The bug is definitely not with or unique to eolcr; when I
reported it, I came up with some simple elisp code that
reproduced it by forking off a simple sleep process.
