XEmacs 21.4.14 appears to prevent W32 processes from exiting

Tue Feb 3 02:57:00 GMT 2004

>>>>> "Andre" == Andre Srinivasan writes:

 Andre> I noticed when I am running the Cygwin packaged version of XEmacs,
 Andre> programs like Opera, IE, etc never quite exit when I quit them
 Andre> (i.e. all windows close but process is still show in task manager); I
 Andre> need to go into the task manager to explicitly kill them. If I stop
 Andre> XEmacs, this does not happen.
 Andre> When I first saw the issue with Opera, I thought I had corrupted my
 Andre> Opera installation so I invoked the installer from IE. After
 Andre> re-installation, Opera continued to not exit and I noticed that IE as
 Andre> well as the Opera installer were similarly still in the task manager.
 Andre> I exited XEmacs, killed the processes, and then restarted Opera and
 Andre> exited from the program. There was no sign of the process in the task
 Andre> manager. I repeated a couple of times with and without XEmacs running
 Andre> and found I could reliably recreate the scenario. 
Hi Andre
I could duplicate this behaviour with Netscape and IE which are the only
W32 programs I'm running on a regular basis besides Far. But I haven't
noticed this behaviour because I usually boot W2K, than run XWin and XEmacs and
then startup Netscape. When shutting down I close XEmacs, shutdown XWin
and then shutdown the rest of the system. So I never noticed Netscape
hanging. By the way, Far (an Norton Commander clone) doesn't hang.
I'll upload a new version of XEmacs which fixes this problem and the
boring Warning message during startup about not finding it's obvious
root hirarchy tomorrow.
Ciao
 Volker
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