bug#4137: 23.1.50; vc-dir waits instead of error message

I tried doing vc-dir without having entered my passphrase to enable
subjobs of Emacs to contact savannah.  So CVS would have failed.
But vc-dir gave no sign of this.  It created the buffer in the initial
state, and never said or did anything more.



In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.4 (mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2009-08-11 on theobromine2
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-O0 -g -Wno-pointer-sign' 'mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: VC dir

Minor modes in effect:
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  display-battery-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
a b o l i s h e d SPC w e l f a r e SPC f o r ESC DEL 
f o r SPC a d u l t s ESC DEL ESC DEL d e c a d e s 
SPC a o , C-b C-b g C-e SPC e x c e p t RET f o r SPC 
f a m i l i e s , SPC a n d SPC A r i z o n a SPC i 
s SPC n o t SPC g e n e r a l DEL a l l y SPC C-u C-b 
DEL C-e c o s i d e C-u C-b n C-e r e d SPC l i b e 
r a l SPC o r SPC p r o g r e s s i v e C-a ESC f ESC 
f C-k ; SPC i s SPC A r i z o n a SPC a n SPC e c e 
p t o n DEL DEL i o n ? ESC b C-f x C-e SPC SPC D o 
e s SPC T e m p e SPC h a e SPC a DEL DEL v DEL e SPC 
DEL DEL DEL v e SPC C-a C-p ESC e ESC k ESC k C-p ESC 
f C-f C-d ESC f ESC f C-d C-n SPC SPC C a n SPC s o 
m e o n e SPC f i n d SPC o u t ? RET C-c C-c d d u 
o e n d o r TAB RET d x C-x b * v c - d TAB RET C-z 
ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a c s TAB RET

Recent messages:
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-18
Sending...done
Wrote /home/rms/foo.html
Auto-saving...done
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-19
Sending...done
Added to /home/rms/xmail/endorsements.xmail
Expunging deleted messages...done

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