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To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: emacs locks up/update 
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> 
> 
> > directory.  for example, I have a directory /users/jmacd/bin
> > and if I execute in a lisp interaction buffer the command
> > (make-comint "directory-process" "/users/jmacd/bin")
> > it dies, can anyone else reproduces this?  
> 
> It does not die here just forever blocked :
> 
>  5564 ??  D      0:05.21 /usr/local/bin/emacs
>  5565 p8  SEs+   0:00.03  (emacs)
> 
> Time to reboot :-) and :-(
> -- 
> Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
> FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May  3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995

I mailed this bug to bug-gnu-emacs also and rms replied:

>
>
>     (make-comint "some process" "path_of_a_directory")
>
> I tried this and got an error message that Emacs could not find
> this program.
>
> Would you please debug openp (lread.c) and figure out why it does not
> reject the directory name?  There is code to reject them.
>
>         /* Ignore file if it's a directory.  */
>         if (stat (fn, &st) >= 0
>             && (st.st_mode & S_IFMT) != S_IFDIR)
>           {
>             /* Check that we can access or open it.  */
>

I can try this, but my experience with gdb is very limited, perhaps
someone more experienced could give it a try.

-josh