sleep-for/sit-for problem

[Tom Wurgler]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00, Motif Version 2.1.0)
 of 2002-03-18 on rds294
configured using `configure  --cache-file=/dev/null 
--host=hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00 --prefix=/home/rdstt1/t901353/local 
--with-x-toolkit=motif --with-png'
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: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

sleep-for doesn't come back....ever...sit-for sits forever unless you do some
input.

The following shows this problem:

emacs -q 
esc-: (sleep-for 2)

The cursor turns to a watch and emacs just sits there.

thanks
tom

Recent input:
<escape> : ( s i t - <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
i t - f o r SPC 2 ) <return> <down> <escape> : <escape> 
p <left> 0 C-e <return> <down> <escape> : <escape> 
p <S-left> C-y <help-echo> C-g <help-echo> C-g C-g 
C-g <help-echo> <escape> x r e p o r t SPC e m a c 
s SPC SPC <return>

Recent messages:
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nil [2 times]
x-get-selection: Quit
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keyboard-quit: Quit [4 times]
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