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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:06:52 -0400
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On 25/10/2012 11:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 08:55 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>>>    http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12697
>>>>>
>>>>> I imagine it will be fixed before the release of Emacs 24.3.
>>>> Agree the initial part is emacs. But I suspect the confused bash
>>>> business is not. ^G should either send SIGINT or not, this core dump
>>>> thing is not cool.
>>> Do you know whether this is Cygwin-specific?  Have you checked to see
>>> what happens on Linux?
>> Oops, you're right: I see the exact same behavior on linux. However,
>> that's via ssh in a mintty window, so it could still be mintty. Can
>> somebody running Linux directly verify, perhaps?
> Linux (at least my setup on Fedora 17) has the same problem - when using
> emacs as the editor under 'git commit', an ill-timed ctrl-G on my part
> unceremoniously kills emacs as a result of sending the SIGINT to the
> entire process group.  I hate the behavior, but it is definitely not
> cygwin-specific.
Right, but what happens to processes when you hit ^G after resetting the 
terminal to use ^C? Does it cause a seg fault? That's the part that 
might still be cygwin-specific.

And yes, hopefully emacs fixes this Real Soon Now...

Ryan


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