On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:30:12PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote: > Now, I tried to trace it down. This is the relevant part ... > > (fd=14 --> pipe from aspell, fd=13 --> pipe to aspell)
Well, it's quite simple what's happening: we only read from stdout, but aspell is complaining to stderr. So we never notice and we don't even time out. Again, I have fixed this behaviour: it will both time out and show an alert, depending on what happens john