Re: Change in process.c

[Sam Steingold]

Nick Roberts wrote:
>  >             /* For some reason, this sleep() prevents Emacs from sending
>  >                loadavg to 5-8(!) for ~10 seconds.
>  >                See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/67722 or
>  >                http://www.google.com/search?q=busyloop+in+sigchld_handler */
>
> Links that might disappear, and searches whose results will change, as comments
> doesn't seem a good idea.  

the link will not disappear any more than a "gnu.org" link will.
if you have a better link, please add it.

> Can't the reason for the change be summarised in situ?

it is summarized: "or some reason, this sleep() prevents Emacs from 
sending loadavg to 5-8(!) for ~10 seconds".
40 messages of various conjectures, claims, counterclaims, rebuttals &c 
are long but of dubious value inside the source code.