Re: wait_reading_process_ouput hangs in certain cases (w/ patches)

[Leo Liu]

On 2018-03-13 18:12 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I don't think it makes sense to put this on the emacs-26 branch,
> sorry.  I even have evidence: the fact that one of the hunks
> re-introduced a previously solved bug, as pointed out by Robert.
>
> This code is very delicate and very central to Emacs operation.  It's
> very easy to break Emacs subtly by seemingly-innocent changes in that
> area.  We really need to test it much more than a few weeks before we
> are confident enough it is bug-free.  The master branch is where such
> changes should be tested.

Is there possibility of including it in the 26.x series? I mean wait
until 27.1 is just too long to see such a critical fix.

In last week I have experienced 2-3 times of hangs (emacs 25.3) that
consumed ~0% CPU but emacs was not responding to anything (C-g, SIGUSR2
etc).

Thanks.

Leo