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24.0.50; M-x shell gives clock icon when using su(1)

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org
Subject: 24.0.50; M-x shell gives clock icon when using su(1)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:20:37 +0800

Do
$ emacs -Q -f shell
$ su
Password: ...
upon which one gets the clock cursor, meaning "wait", though one can
still use the shell.
emacs-version "24.0.50.1" Debian package 1:20100524-1.

Message #8 received at 6292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org, 6292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.0.50; M-x shell gives clock icon when using su(1)
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:41:04 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> Do
> $ emacs -Q -f shell
> $ su
> Password: ...
> upon which one gets the clock cursor, meaning "wait", though one can
> still use the shell.

Yeah, that seems wrong.  The cursor changes into a clock *after* the
password has been entered.  It remains a cursor until you type another
character. 

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org, 6292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6292: 24.0.50; M-x shell gives clock icon when using su(1)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 22:40:20 +0200

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:
>
>> Do
>> $ emacs -Q -f shell
>> $ su
>> Password: ...
>> upon which one gets the clock cursor, meaning "wait", though one can
>> still use the shell.
>
> Yeah, that seems wrong.  The cursor changes into a clock *after* the
> password has been entered.  It remains a cursor until you type another
> character. 

I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 27, so I'm going to go ahead and
guess that this has been fixed in the eight years that have passed, and
I'm closing this bug report.  If you still see this bug, please reopen.

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