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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 51820-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51820: 29.0.50; process_pending_signals is almost useless without SIGIO
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:11:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c030d4b3-4723-0fe5-9d67-9fc668e62698@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ilwvw7vy.fsf@gnu.org>

On 11/14/2021 1:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:25:55 -0500
>> Cc: 51820@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>>
>>> In that case, perhaps someone using Cygwin (i.e., not me) could look into this.
>>> Evidently it has not been much of a practical problem all these years.
>>
>> It's hard to know whether it's been a problem.  Maybe emacs would be more
>> responsive to C-g on Cygwin if we removed the #ifdef from handle_async_input.
>> My preference would be to try that (on master of course) and see if anything breaks.
>>
>> Eli, WDYT?
> 
> Sure, feel free to install such a change on master.

Done.

> I don't know how
> many Cygwin users track the Emacs master branch, but if there are more
> than a couple, perhaps even provide a variable exposed to Lisp that
> users could tweak to see the result without rebuilding and without
> leaving the session.

Good idea.  I think I'll wait a couple weeks so that I can see how the change 
works myself, as well as to see if anyone notices.  But then I might do that. 
For now I'm closing the bug.

Ken





      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-17 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-13 22:49 bug#51820: 29.0.50; process_pending_signals is almost useless without SIGIO Ken Brown
2021-11-13 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2021-11-13 23:17   ` Ken Brown
2021-11-13 23:18     ` Paul Eggert
2021-11-13 23:25       ` Ken Brown
2021-11-14  2:26         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 16:09           ` Ken Brown
2021-11-14  6:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-17 18:11           ` Ken Brown [this message]

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