[PATCH] test/emacs: replace the use of process-attributes with signal-process
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Sun Jan 12 16:09:53 PST 2014
David Bremner <david at 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 at 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
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