Re: Emacs does not listen on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > In any case, the first
> >  thing to do is to figure out what *really* happened in the first place.
> >  We don't even know why Emacs didn't respond.  Maybe it has nothing to do
> >  with the processing of WM_CLOSE.
>
> I don't think the problem was related to WM_CLOSE. What you suggested
> is much more likely: a memory leak. Windows tends to be *extremely*
> unresponsive on low-memory situations.

I think you and Stefan are right about the memory problem but that there 
are two different problems. In response to Eli's message I tested a 
simple loop, something like

  (let (x y)
     (while (not x)
        (setq y (current-time-string))
        (when (string= y "something")
          (setq x t))))

Running this Emacs does not hang the pc, but it still does not answer 
when clicking the [X]. (I could kill it with C-g here though.)

> My answering to Lennart is because he's trying to hack around a
> probable bug by pushing for a half-cooked idea, when a combination of
> (the Windows equivalent of) kill -9 and gdb would be more appropriate
> :)
>
>  Juanma