Charles G Waldman <cgw(a)pgt.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
SL Baur writes:
>
> M-: (boom-boom "/path/to/broken-cat" "some-large-file")
>
> Someone please try this on MS Windows (if processes are supported) and
> XEmacs/No-Mule.
On my home system (Linux sirius 2.0.34, libc.so.5.4.43)
XEmacs/No-Mule
gives a core dump on your test case.
He said "dump", heh, heh, heh, heh.
I'll check out the behaviour on MS-Win when I get to the office
later on.
This is a Beavis & Butthead crash within a crash. Sigh. Yet Another
Problem.
#0 0x829d938 in Qfloat_output_format ()
#1 0x81040cf in print_internal (obj=139443936, printcharfun=137106928,
escapeflag=1) at print.c:1214
#2 0x810586d in Fprin1 (object=139443936, stream=137106928) at print.c:506
#3 0x80a367c in Fbacktrace (stream=137106928, detailed=136998960)
at eval.c:4936
#4 0x809de03 in fatal_error_signal (sig=11) at emacs.c:245
#5 0xbfffe614 in ?? ()
#6 0x80fd41d in Lstream_flush (lstr=0x82a7014) at lstream.c:372