From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Incomplete output from "cvs annotate"
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:45:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3405-Tue20Jan2004204524+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluekturfpp.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (message from Simon Josefsson on Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:01:54 +0100)
> From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:01:54 +0100
> >
> > You cannot DTRT to put data from different descriptors together
> > because you don't know their relative timing.
>
> Wouldn't select on both fd's and reading from the first one available,
> and then sending that to the buffer, work?
Not really, since Emacs only checks if input from some process is
available when it is not otherwise busy doing something. On a fast
machine, getting to that a second too late can lose you your world.
> Surely there is some similar logic somewhere in bash, the kernel or
> somewhere.
Probably, but the important case is when stdout and stderr are written
one after another, but before Emacs gets to see the first one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 1:06 Incomplete output from "cvs annotate" Kim F. Storm
2004-01-19 12:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-01-19 14:59 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-19 15:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-01-19 16:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-19 22:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-01-20 12:02 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-19 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20 12:01 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-20 13:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-20 12:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-20 14:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-20 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-01-20 23:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-01-19 17:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-19 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-19 23:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-20 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-20 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-19 21:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
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