[PATCH] Raw strings, from Python via SXEmacs

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry James <james at xemacs.org> writes:

    >> Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull:

    >>> I would guess it's in the lstream code, which Jerry and Tony
    >>> Bennett have been playing with over the last year or so.  I
    >>> suspect their patches are responsible for the "Write failed
    >>> flushing stdout buffer.\nwrite stdout: broken pipe" warnings
    >>> I've been seeing using CVS recently.

    Jerry> Really?  As far as I know, this is the only nontrivial
    Jerry> change I made to the lstream code:

2004-11-12  Jerry James  <james at xemacs.org>

        * lstream.c (Lstream_really_write): Don't call the flusher if the
        writer returned an error.

That's the one I have in mind.  I didn't realize it was that old,
though, the flusher warnings are more recent.  In both cases I'm just
guessing, though---Aidan asked for "any ideas", if I really thought I
knew what the problem was, I would have said so before.

    Jerry> I remember talking with Tony about a bug he was chasing,
    Jerry> but I can't seem to find a corresponding ChangeLog entry,
    Jerry> nor does "cvs log" show anything I can identify as
    Jerry> originating with Tony.

I think that's the one; it had a long thread with patches from both
you and Tony in it.

Tony also had a more recent patch, where he lowered the wait time in a
loop by a couple orders of magnitude.  But I'm wrong about that being
in lstreams, that's the process-unix patch:

2006-03-23  Tony Bennett  <tbennett at nvidia.com>

	* process-unix.c (unix_send_process): Reduce timeout for
	Faccept_process_output to 10ms.  This dramatically speeds up many
	functions that read from processes, eg, inferior interpreter
	processes as in ilisp or python-mode.

I'm hazy on gnuserv internals, but couldn't it be related through
gnuserv?

    Jerry> The fact that it only manifests on Linux suggests that it
    Jerry> is a Linux bug, but I'll see if I can track it down.  It's
    Jerry> been bothering me, too.

Do you mean XEmacs is running on Linux, or that the TTY is on Linux?
I can't reproduce with XEmacs running on Linux but displaying to a Mac
OS X Terminal.


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