Re: Can we apply this patch for bug 84 and 425?

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden writes:

> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden writes:
>>
>>> These bugs are both about hangs when emacs deals with external processes:
>>>    http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84
>>>    http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425
>>> Markus Triska has a patch which reduces my experiences of the hang
>>> from about once a day to not at all so far.
>>>
>>> How can we proceed with this patch? 
>>
>> According to Markus in the discussion in #425, these two bugs were due
>> to #562, which was fixed by undefining HAVE_RES_INIT on darwin.  Is this
>> patch still necessary?
>
> Well I still experience the problem without Marcus patch, on Fedora core
> 9, i686 GNU/Linux.

I see.

The patch looks fairly safe; I think it can be checked in.