bug#8265: 24.0.50; windows emacs hanging calling svn

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:23:17 -0600
> From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 8265@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 3/16/2011 8:16 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> when I try to attach strace or gdb to the svn process, they hang too.
> >
> > Sounds like the problem might on the svn executable side (maybe
> > triggered by the way Emacs runs it).
> 
> FWIW, I see the same problem on Windows XP when using the cygwin SVN. 
> Using the native Windows SVN client from CollabNet everything works fine.
> 
> I tested with 23.2 and 24.0.50 (this weeks build) and they behave the 
> same, so it does not seem to be anything new.

Sam clearly said that the native build of svn has the same problem.
If that's not true, then the problem could be some issue with Emacs
invoking Cygwin programs.  Enclosing svn.exe in a batch file could
then be TRT to fix the problem.