Re: Emacs on Gtk3.8

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Achim Gratz <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:42:45 +0200
> 
> Paul Eggert writes:
> > My current guess is that it's a Gtk bug, since
> > it appears that programs other than Emacs are affected.
> > But it's just a guess, and I could be wrong.
> 
> I concur about something fishy with Gtk.  However there's also something
> that has changed between the release version and current trunk (only in
> degrees, but still).  Emacs 24.2 and earlier don't even start, btw.

Of course, "something" changed!  Take a look at process.c, and you
will see that the way Emacs waits for subprocesses has been completely
rewritten, using 'waitpid' instead of 'wait'.