bug#4331: 23.1.50; Emacs 23.1.50 on Solaris 11 hangs in C-h h

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:

> When checking CVS Emacs for several bugs I've noticed and reported, I
> ran across another one that makes the CVS version unusable: if I type
> C-h h, Emacs just hangs (or at least takes a very long time to finish),
> unlike e.g. Emacs 23.1.
>
> I've taken to exemplary stack traces with pstack, which show this
> happens in fontset_find_font:
>
> 19283:        emacs-23.1.50
>  fe22694c FcStrCaseWalkerNext (ffbf8104, ffbf80f4, 0, 10, 3, 10) + 9c

`C-h h' generally takes a long time to finish if Emacs actually manages
to find all the required fonts, because it has to ask the X server for
all the fonts.  So I don't think this sounds like a bug.

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