Re: Can't stop find-grep-dired when using Cygwin for the inferior process

[Kim F. Storm]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> I see C-c C-k already has that meaning in the buffers made by M-x grep
>>>> and M-x compile.  So let's set it up to kill the process of
>>>> find-grep-dired as well.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> It already does.
>>>
>>> Andreas.
>>>   
>> Thanks. I did not notice and now I know why. When using Cygwin for
>> the inferior process trying to use kill-find just hangs Emacs. So
>> there is a bug here.
>>
>> kill-find now uses `delete-process'. Using `interrupt-process' or
>> kill-process' works instead. Is there any reason not to use them? Or
>> at least try them first?
>>
>> Maybe a process killing command should try this one after the other
>> until the process is gone? (And then do the mode specific cleanup.)

Can you propose a specific change that works on cygwin, so we can try
it on other platforms (or just make it specific to cygwin)?

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