Re: gnus: apparently kills external viewers too aggressively

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

David Coe <davidc@debian.org> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Makes sense, the patch below has been installed.  It tries to
>> interrupt the process in a loop with a echo area message, and when it
>> is dead, or you press C-g, it goes on and send it a final KILL and
>> remove the files.
>
> Thanks.  That works nicely, but the message "Waiting for external
> displayer to die..." doesn't go away (until user does something, like
> select the next message).  The external display process does get
> stopped correctly (and it does destroy the shared segments it had
> allocated), but the message implies to the user that gnus is still
> waiting.
>
> Is there a better way to deal with that message, or do we have a bug
> somewhere else? (Perhaps I or debian gnus/emacs have something wrong.)

I have installed the fix below too.  Thanks for testing.

--- mm-decode.el.~6.93.~	Thu Jan  1 01:00:01 1970
+++ mm-decode.el	Wed Aug 27 08:01:16 2003
@@ -852,6 +852,7 @@
 	    (quit)
 	    (error))
 	  (ignore-errors (and (cdr object) (kill-buffer (cdr object))))
+	  (message "Waiting for external displayer to die...done")
 	  (ignore-errors (delete-file (car object)))
 	  (ignore-errors (delete-directory (file-name-directory
 					    (car object)))))