Re: making emacs hang with gnus+rss with wget

[Stefan Monnier]

> The problem is that its possible to make emacs "hang" when you have
> configured gnus to read a rss feed with wget, where the rss feed never
> responds. 

Hmmm... we've just had a thread about gnus+nnrss and I installed a fix that
seemed to help.  But your Emacs build seems to be brand new, so it looks
like the problem was not fixed after all.

> You can't break out of the condition with ctrl-g. you get the
> "autosave/core dump" prompt.

I'm not familiar with this "autosave/core dump" prompt.  Could you give me
actual text for which I could grep in Emacs sources, or could someone else
point me to it?

> It is, however, possible to kill the wget process and emacs will
> notice and return.

If you set debug-on-quit (i.e. Options -> Enter debugger on Quit/C-g), do
you get a backtrace?  If so, please show it to us?


        Stefan