Re: [PATCH] Do not send duplicate signals when MONITOR is set

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>]

> On 18 July 2021 at 23:55 Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021, at 3:19 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 11:45 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:28 AM Erik Paulson <epaulson10@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I run emacs as a daemon and use the emacsclient program to connect to
> > > > it. I noticed that when I suspended the emacsclient program and
> > > > resumed it in zsh, the program would sporadically crash. After digging
> > > > into the code, I realized that emacsclient was receiving two SIGCONTs,
> > > > which caused it to send a malformed command to the daemon.
> > > > 
> > > > I found that this return used to be present, but was removed in
> > > > https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2018/msg01338.html while addressing
> > > > another emacs issue.
>...
> > I would hazard that as SIGCONT is probably the most difficult case ---
> > the only one where you specifically want the process to be running
> > afterwards --- if this patch improves things there, it's prohably not
> > doing a lot of harm in most cases.
>...
> Anything else on this?

Unless anyone can point to a fundamental error in my summary above, I
suggest we apply this and and see what happens.  At the absolute least,
I'm pretty sure we're not going to get any further without trying it
out in earnest, and looking for remaining oddities.

pws