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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs hangs when invoke from a subshell
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.134406.2263@talos.uucp>
Date: 30 Nov 89 13:44:06 GMT
References: <8911290317.AA17362@soulcatcher.uk.oracle.com>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.uu.net
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Mark L. Lambert writes:
 > We are running GNU emacs 18.55 on both SUN SPARC SUNOS 4.0.3 and DEC
 > 3100 Ultrix workstations.  When emacs is invoked from a subshell on
 > these machines, it hangs; PS shows it to be in state "T" (stopped on
 > tty output?).

My God, I remember this bug being reported a few days after 18.53 was
released.  Odd that it still isn't fixed.  Our solution here has been to
run 18.5[12].  These may have other bugs, but none as irritating as this
"stopping in a subshell" thing.


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