Re: delete-process bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Cadilhac)
> Cc: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm),  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 22:04:52 +0200
> 
> >> But... if MS-Windows does not support SIGCHLD (or SIGCLD), how does
> >> emacs detect process termination on MS-Windows??
> >
> > It uses a Windows specific API to probe for subprocess termination,
> > and when that tells us that a child process terminated, we call the
> > signal handler by hand.
> 
> So, is  there a case in  which the deleted_pid list  is not necessary,
> and in  which we should not  install the mechanism (to  avoid leaks as
> well as unnecessary processing) ?
> 
> It seems  that the  guard we  put (#ifdef SIGCHLD)  was not  the right
> thing to do, isn't it ?

Sorry, I don't know: I didn't track this thread, so I'm not sure I
even understand the question.

If there's a message or two (as opposed to the whole thread) which I
could read to figure out what are you asking about, please tell what
that message is, and I will try to answer your questions.