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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: problems after GNU Emacs upgrade to 18.53
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Date: 21 Aug 89 21:51:39 GMT
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After upgrading GNU Emacs to 18.53, everything seemed to go well.
About a week later, people started complaining that postnews wasn't
working.  After investigation, it turned out that when postnews
ran the editor (looking at the environment variable EDITOR), it did
a system() call, which hung when emacs was the editor of choice.
Eventually, checking through all the changes made in the diff file
that might remotely be responsible, I got it to work.  All I did
was comment out the line in main() [emacs.c] that reads:

  setpgrp (getpid (), getpid());

This vaguely makes sense, but I am unfamiliar with process groups.
Since this call is not being made, am I going to run into other
errors or bugs (I assume it was added for a very good reason)?  Is there
another way to fix this problem?

Darin
Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
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