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

[Lennart Borgman]

Kim F. Storm wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > Kim F. Storm wrote:
> >     
> > > 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.
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> > > > > >             
> > > > > 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)?
> > >   
> > >       
> > As I wrote both interrupt-process and kill-process works in my case
> > here. However I do not know exactly what they do (cleanup etc).
> >     
>
> Can you send a patch we can try?
>   
Just replace delete-process with interrupt-process in kill-find.
>   
> > There seem to be another bug on w32 too. I just tried using CMD.EXE
> > for the inferior process instead. That does not seem to work at all. I
> > got this:
> >
> >  d:/ecvs/:
> >  find . \( -type f -exec grep -q -e "message" {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
> >  find: missing argument to `-exec'
> >
> >  find exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun Aug 27 00:16:20
> >     
>
> Sorry, I don't understand.  What were you trying to do that gave this error?
>
> Pls. provide an exact test case.
>   
** Here it is:
emacs -Q
M-x find-grep-dired RET
Find-grep (directory): d:/ecvs/ RET
Find-grep (grep regexp): message RET

** To check find:
M-x shell RET
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

d:\ecvs>find --version
find --version
GNU find version 4.2.20
Features enabled: CACHE_IDS D_TYPE

d:\ecvs>