bug#9290: 24.0.50; TAB in shell buffer hangs emacs

[Glenn Morris]

Eric Hanchrow wrote:

> Here's what I did:
>
> * Started emacs with -Q
> * typed M-x s h e l l RET c d SPC ~ / D o w n l o a d s RET
>
> (I happen to have two files in ~/Downloads, named "bug (1).patch" and
> "bug (2).patch")
>
> * typed l s SPC - l SPC b u g \ TAB
>
> At this point emacs hung.

Sorry for the delay. I cannot reproduce this with the current trunk.
Do you still see it? There have been various pcomplete fixes.
If you do still see it, a C backtrace is not needed: set debug-on-quit
and get a Lisp backtrace.