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bug#6074: accept-process-output on listening sockets cause non-interrupt


From: Pip Cet
Subject: bug#6074: accept-process-output on listening sockets cause non-interruptible infloop
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:31:16 +0000

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:46 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>   > On Linux, the problem appears to be that
>
> Those words lead me to think that you're running GNU Emacs as
> part of the GNU operating system -- a version with Linx as the kernel.

I am, indeed, but in this particular case, it is the Linux kernel
doing something problematic: returning -EINVAL, which glibc merely
stores in errno.  But I agree it would have been more accurate to say
something like "On this GNU/Linux system, the problem appears to be
that the Linux kernel..."

> Thanks for reporting a bug in one part of the GNU system.  While

(I didn't report it, I merely reproduced a very old bug report and
suggested a fix.)

> you're at it, could you please call the system "GNU/Linux", so as to
> help correct the misinformation of what it is, where it comes from,
> and why we developed it?

Thanks for taking the time to remind me of that.





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