Re: delete-process bug

[Michaël Cadilhac]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>>        address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 10:14:22 +0200
>> 
>> But... if MS-Windows does not support SIGCHLD (or SIGCLD), how does
>> emacs detect process termination on MS-Windows??
>
> It uses a Windows specific API to probe for subprocess termination,
> and when that tells us that a child process terminated, we call the
> signal handler by hand.

So, is  there a case in  which the deleted_pid list  is not necessary,
and in  which we should not  install the mechanism (to  avoid leaks as
well as unnecessary processing) ?

It seems  that the  guard we  put (#ifdef SIGCHLD)  was not  the right
thing to do, isn't it ?

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