On Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 19:48 Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> wrote:

>
> Since ~4 years I've received reports of emacs hanging in certain
> situations, without a good hint about what was wrong.
>
>   https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=150996114220295&w=2
>   https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=29170
>
> Yesterday evening Gregoire wanted to nail down this bug and after
> refreshing our memories of this problem we tried disabling the
> broken-SIGIO-workaround contained in configure.  This workaround was
> previously introduced by mikeb@ in 2011.  I hope that this workaround is
> currently doing more harm than good, and that ditching it will fix the
> various hangs reported in the few last years.
>

Hi Jeremie,

I agree with you. This workaround has long outlived its usefulness and
should be reconsidered.

Cheers,
Mike

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