>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: Ben> adrian, i think the stderr changes are unrelated. you Ben> probably shouldn't back them out, just the Ben> enable_child_signals changes. OK, here's a revised patch tested against 21.1.10 vanilla. It retains STDERR handling improvements. Best regards, Adrian cd d:\tmp\21.1\xemacs\ cvs diff src Compilation started at Sun May 07 17:23:56 2000 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) ? src/call-process.err ? src/cvs-update.err ? src/SATISFIED ? src/stat-fstat ? src/stat-fstat-h ? src/temacs.bsc ? src/temacs.map ? src/xemacs.opt cvs server: Diffing src Index: src/process-nt.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/src/process-nt.c,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -r1.15 process-nt.c --- process-nt.c 1999/12/04 04:13:05 1.15 +++ process-nt.c 2000/05/07 15:31:54 ＠＠ -49,7 +49,6 ＠＠ struct nt_process_data { HANDLE h_process; - int need_enable_child_signals; }; #define NT_DATA(p) ((struct nt_process_data*)((p)->process_data)) ＠＠ -469,7 +468,7 ＠＠ /* Duplicate the stdout handle for use as stderr */ DuplicateHandle(GetCurrentProcess(), hprocout, GetCurrentProcess(), &hprocerr, - 0, TRUE, DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS); + 0, TRUE, DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS); /* Stupid Win32 allows to create a pipe with *both* ends either inheritable or not. We need process ends inheritable, and local ＠＠ -598,7 +597,7 ＠＠ { si.hStdInput = hprocin; si.hStdOutput = hprocout; - si.hStdError = hprocerr; + si.hStdError = hprocerr; si.dwFlags |= STARTF_USESTDHANDLES; } ＠＠ -613,7 +612,7 ＠＠ /* These just have been inherited; we do not need a copy */ CloseHandle (hprocin); CloseHandle (hprocout); - CloseHandle (hprocerr); + CloseHandle (hprocerr); } /* Handle process creation failure */ ＠＠ -640,18 +639,12 ＠＠ CloseHandle (pi.hProcess); } + if (!windowed) + enable_child_signals (pi.hProcess); + ResumeThread (pi.hThread); CloseHandle (pi.hThread); - /* Remember to enable child signals later if this is not a windowed - app. Can't do it right now because that screws up the MKS Toolkit - shell. */ - if (!windowed) - { - NT_DATA(p)->need_enable_child_signals = 10; - kick_status_notify (); - } - /* Hack to support Windows 95 negative pids */ return ((int)pi.dwProcessId < 0 ? -(int)pi.dwProcessId : (int)pi.dwProcessId); ＠＠ -670,18 +663,6 ＠＠ nt_update_status_if_terminated (struct Lisp_Process* p) { DWORD exit_code; - - if (NT_DATA(p)->need_enable_child_signals > 1) - { - NT_DATA(p)->need_enable_child_signals -= 1; - kick_status_notify (); - } - else if (NT_DATA(p)->need_enable_child_signals == 1) - { - enable_child_signals(NT_DATA(p)->h_process); - NT_DATA(p)->need_enable_child_signals = 0; - } - if (GetExitCodeProcess (NT_DATA(p)->h_process, &exit_code) && exit_code != STILL_ACTIVE) { ＠＠ -782,14 +763,6 ＠＠ int current_group, int nomsg) { struct Lisp_Process *p = XPROCESS (proc); - - /* Enable child signals if necessary. This may lose the first - but it's better than nothing. */ - if (NT_DATA(p)->need_enable_child_signals > 0) - { - enable_child_signals(NT_DATA(p)->h_process); - NT_DATA(p)->need_enable_child_signals = 0; - } /* Signal error if SIGNO cannot be sent */ validate_signal_number (signo); Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun May 07 17:24:10 -- Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt;