bug#13086: 24.2.50; Emacs seems to hang at w32proc.c:1126

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:36:53 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 13086@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 12/06/12 12:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > And that is exactly what we will do in an build
> > without assertions, if waitpid returns ECHILD.
> 
> One possibility is to replace
> "eassert (errno == EINTR);" with
> "if (errno != EINTR) emacs_abort ();";
> that would prevent the loop.
> 
> There are other possibilities,
> for example, Emacs could report an error and
> refuse to kill any processes thereafter;
> this would prevent it from killing innocent-victim
> processes.

Any of these is better than iflooping.