bug#12697: 24.2; Emacs crashes when using it as the commit editor for git

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> C-g in emacs -nw is equivalent to SIGINT on the controlling terminal.
>> This causes all processes in the same process group to receive SIGINT,
>> which includes the parent git process
>
> Shouldn't git block SIGINT when it invokes $EDITOR?

Maybe.  Perhaps the OP should report it to the git list.

>> now that emacs no longer puts itself and the terminal into its own
>> process group.
>
> Did we have good reason to stop doing that?

IMHO no.  All the BSD_PGRPS stuff was removed on the premise that it
wasn't used any more, but disabling BSD_PGRPS in s/gnu-linux.h was
already questionable.

Andreas.

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