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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with\r
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:\r
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+> In some environments (at least Hurd), process-attributes is\r
+> unimplimented and always returns nil. This ends up causing test\r
+> failures (see e.g. id:87a9ffofsc.fsf@zancas.localnet).\r
+>\r
+> Historically and according to POSIX 1003.1-2001, a signal of 0 can be\r
+> used to check the validity of a pid. This seems less heinous than\r
+> parsing the output of ps(1).\r
+\r
+pushed, along with some fiddling with debian emacs packaging, as\r
+debian/0.17-3\r
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+d\r