From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5372: Calling url-retrieve-synchronously in a timer Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:43:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263394170 3841 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2010 14:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5372@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 13 15:49:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NV4XC-0004BO-7u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:49:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NV4XD-0006Af-3O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NV4X9-0006AN-Ad for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NV4X4-0006A3-Gj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36693 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NV4X4-0006A0-Af for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34001) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NV4X3-0004rM-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NV4S2-00022c-82; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:44:02 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5372 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5372-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5372.12633937917816 (code B ref 5372); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5372) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jan 2010 14:43:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NV4RC-000221-PM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183] helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NV4RA-00021u-TJ for 5372@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:43:09 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhoFAMNqTUvO+KPG/2dsb2JhbACBRNUyhDAEijI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,268,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="53667114" Original-Received: from 206-248-163-198.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.163.198]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 13 Jan 2010 09:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7BB00806E; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:43:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:21:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) Resent-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:44:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:34270 Archived-At: > 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. Stefan