[64bit] emacs is unable to call subprocesses if display-time-mode is set

[Ken Brown]

On 3/30/2013 7:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 30 06:54, Ken Brown wrote:
>> When you set display-time-mode in emacs, the mode line near the
>> bottom of the screen shows the current time.  The code that does
>> this involves setting itimers.
>
> Can you extrace a simple testcase from the itimer code?  That would help
> a lot to track down this case.  I'm a bit scared of emacs...
>
> Other than that, this is a bit too complicated for the Easter weekend.
> I'll start to look into it when I'm back to work on Tuesday, ok?

Sure, that's fine.  I won't have a chance to try to make a simple 
testcase before then anyway.

Ken