Re: Emacs crashing on C-x C-g

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

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.

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