MacOSX (Aqua) - call-process hangs

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

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Calls like (call-process "sleep" nil nil nil "1") hang on MacOSX
10.2.2 with Aqua.  I can reproduce that with .../Emacs -q
--no-site-file.  The problem affects VC commands like vc-cvs-checkout.
The command works fine in ".../Emacs -nw".  (call-process "sleep" nil
nil nil "0") also works fine.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.7 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.2)
 of 2002-12-13 on octavian.benny.turtle-trading.net
configured using `configure '--with-carbon' '--without-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
M-x r e p o s t - b <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> r t <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Mark set
Reading directory /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp/...done
Note: file is write protected [2 times]
Reading directory /Users/benny/Projects/emacs/src/...done
Fontifying src... (regexps.......)
Reading directory /Users/benny/Projects/emacs/src/...done
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