[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs Emacs 1.4rc1

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    >> There is a shell process using an entire core.  According to ps it
    >> is:
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    >> skip     13177  93.4  0.0   600172    536   ??  R     1:58PM    
    >> 4:49.82 /bin/sh /usr/libexec/path_helper -s
    ...
    Joseph> I'm running it on 5.3 without that. However, after installing it
    Joseph> I had to reboot. I have no explanation, but perhaps a reboot and
    Joseph> disk repair?

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried it, but that didn' solve the problem.
It still takes approximately forever for path_helper to do its thing.

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