From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, 9767@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9767: 24.0.90; gdb initialization on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:47:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA2912C.7020505@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvipnic7h7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 10/21/2011 6:24 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> unreliable, and, in particular, it consistently fails on Cygwin. In other
>> words, the SIGALRM is delivered before select times out, causing select to
>> get interrupted. So wait_reading_process_output does indeed loop, and
>> select fails every time (except when a key is pressed).
>
> Why is it a problem that `select' fails? It should not be a problem: in
> the worst case it should only mean that Emacs does "busy waiting" and
> uses up more CPU than needed. But it shouldn't prevent Emacs from
> reading input from processes (which IIUC is the actual problem we're
> trying to solve).
You're right. I wasn't thinking clearly. The problem is not solved.
Ken
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-22 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-16 16:02 bug#9767: 24.0.90; gdb initialization on Cygwin Ken Brown
2011-10-16 23:08 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-17 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 20:00 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-19 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 20:43 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-19 21:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-19 22:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20 2:11 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-21 20:47 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-21 22:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-22 9:51 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-22 20:58 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-23 21:59 ` Ken Brown
2011-10-21 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-22 9:47 ` Ken Brown [this message]
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