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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 5372@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5372: Calling url-retrieve-synchronously in a timer
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:02:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6k20z7z.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvljg2f4oo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:43:03 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It looks like url-retrieve-synchronously is not finished when run in a
>> timer.  Is that expected behaviour?
>> It looks like it hangs in accept-process-output.
>
> It's not expected (for me anyway), but I'm not completely
> surprised either.  Furthermore, it doesn't look like a good thing to
> do anyway: timer code should not run for an indefinite amount of time,
> so you should probably use url-retrieve instead.

Could this be a manifestation of Bug#5359, "process-send-region hangs
ntEmacs if region >64K"?

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5359






  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-13 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <e01d8a51001122054x7d2489eu6cf17ca3579368d4@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-13  9:21 ` bug#5372: Calling url-retrieve-synchronously in a timer Lennart Borgman
2010-01-13 14:43   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-13 15:17     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-13 18:49       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-13 19:09         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-13 19:57           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-13 16:02     ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-01-13 16:21       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-01-13 22:54       ` Jason Rumney
2010-01-14  4:33         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-14  5:21           ` Jason Rumney
2011-09-18 10:26   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-19 18:39   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-07  4:33     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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