RE: A question on wait_reading_process_output

[Herbert Euler]

>> There seems a problem here: The value of got_some_input isn't set to
>> nonzero during the reading happens inside the body of the if even when
>> something has been read, so it is possible that something has been
>> read from wait_proc's output but got_some_input is still zero.  In
>> that case, the return value of wait_reading_process is not what it
>> promises.
>
> So you're proposing a patch like the onw below?

Based on the fact I see, yes.  In fact I prefer changing
got_some_input outside the inner reading loop, like this:

Regards,
Guanpeng Xu

Index: process.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/process.c,v
retrieving revision 1.542
diff -c -F '^[_a-zA-Z0-9$]+ *(' -r1.542 process.c
*** process.c   22 May 2008 14:53:26 -0000      1.542
--- process.c   30 May 2008 01:24:24 -0000
*************** wait_reading_process_output (time_limit,
*** 4489,4494 ****
--- 4489,4495 ----
                  break;
  #endif
            }
+           got_some_input = total_nread> 0 ? 1 : 0;
          if (total_nread> 0 && do_display)
            redisplay_preserve_echo_area (10);
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