Re: Emacs kill-ring causing other programs to hang/crash?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Klaus-Dieter Bauer <bauer.klaus.dieter@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:42:58 +0100
> 
>    1. Put some text into the kill-ring in emacs.
>    2. Run "M-x shell-command RET notepad RET". Notepad is now open, and
>    Emacs is blocked until it is closed.
>    3. Try pasting to notepad.
> 
> At this point Notepad, or whatever program Emacs is waiting for to finish,
> hangs until killed, and similarly I experience intense lags when using
> Chrome while something from Emacs is in the clibboard.

Not reproducible on my Windows XP system with Emacs 25.1, 25.2, and
the current pretest of 26.1.

> Is this a known problem / are there known solutions?

Does it happen to you in "emacs -Q"?  If not, look for a customization
that causes this.