Re: bug#12579: Emacs 24.2 crashes or freezes

[Fabrice Niessen]

Hi Eli,

"Fabrice Niessen" wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> After many days of intensive Emacs use, I can tell that Everything does not
>>> block Emacs anymore, when
>>>
>>>     (setq shell-file-name "cmdproxy") [1]
>>>
>>> So, thanks to that (and to you), I don't have big problems anymore. GREAT.
>>
>> This is good news.  However, I would encourage you to try a newer
>> snapshot of the development trunk, where the way Emacs reaps its
>> subprocesses was enhanced, and the problems you saw with Bash might
>> disappear.
>
> FYI, I'm using GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-12-03 on
> MS-W7-DANI for a couple of days.
>
> I'm back with (setq shell-file-name "bash"), and experienced no real problem
> so far[1].
>
> [1] I have the _impression_ that, once, there still was a suspended "es.exe"
> process, but I really need to confirm it (to be sure I really was using
> 24.3.50.1, and not some 24.2 version...). And, deleting such a process,
> anyway, is sufficient to defreeze Emacs.

I just got one "es.exe" suspended process, with the above Emacs version
(24.3.50.1).

So, the problem is NOT fully away. But its occurrence is much less than
before.

I did recover my Emacs session by killing that process.

Best regards,
Fabrice