From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:09:53 +0000 (+2000)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with signal-process
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Re: [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with signal-process
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with
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+David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
+
+> In some environments (at least Hurd), process-attributes is
+> unimplimented and always returns nil.  This ends up causing test
+> failures (see e.g. id:87a9ffofsc.fsf@zancas.localnet).
+>
+> Historically and according to POSIX 1003.1-2001, a signal of 0 can be
+> used to check the validity of a pid. This seems less heinous than
+> parsing the output of ps(1).
+
+pushed, along with some fiddling with debian emacs packaging, as
+debian/0.17-3
+
+d