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macrakis@osf.ORG (Stavros Macrakis) writes:
 > Epoch 4.0.1 of Tue Jul 21 1992 on phoenix (aix-v3) (Emacs 18.58)
 > 
 > When Emacs appears to be wedged, not responding to control-G for
 > whatever reason, is there some signal you can send it using the "kill"
 > command to force it to wake up?
 > 
 > I guess if it's hanging in an NFS open or something, that won't help,
 > though....  Unix needs PCLSR!

SIGINT helped sometimes when Emacs would go into a spin while
using interrupt driven I/O.  This was years ago though, so I
don't know if what you're experieencing is at all related.

SIGINT and SIGWINCH are the only signals that won't make Emacs
die and yet might wake Emacs up that I can think of.