Re: shell and ispell

[lawrence mitchell]

ahall@no-spam-world.std.com wrote:

> Suddenly on

> GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit) of Tue Jul 17 2001 on sgi01

> both M-x shell, and ispell stopped working with
> messages like:

> Input file descriptor of shell closed
> Input file descriptor of ispell closed

> I then noticed that the PID of the processes
> had 9 digit numbers, and wondered if that was
> causing emacs to lose contact with subprocesses.

If the PID was bigger than the variable `most-positive-fixnum',
then that might well be the case.  If it's possible for you to
compile Emacs yourself, you can compile it as a 64-bit
executable, which would give you larger buffer sizes (and a
larger value for lisp integers), see the file etc/MACHINES for
more details on how to do this.


-- 
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>