Re: alarm_signal_handler is called too frequently

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     I can't say why the do_timer argument is different, the modification was made 
>     by you almost 2 years ago:
> 
> Judging by the date when I made the change, I was probably looking at
> bug reports saved up from the previous months.  I didn't mail the
> patch to anyone at the time.
> 
> Perhaps it has to do with y-or-n-p-with-timeout.
> Can that operate with a dialog?  If so, it now won't work
> correctly; the timeout will be ignored.  We could make
> the timeout work once again using some other mechanism,
> I guess.

I think that is the case, there was a bug report on bug-gnu-emacs about it 4 
days before the checkin,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-12/msg00062.html:

> From: 	Järneström Jonas
> Subject: 	y-or-n-p-with-timeout fails when using dialog box input
> Date: 	Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:31:35 +0100 (MET)
> 
> In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
>  of Tue Jan 16 2001 on sunray8.era-a.ericsson.se
> configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr/bag/emacs/20.7 
> --datadir=/usr/bag/emacs/share'
> 
> See the funs below. 
> When I run the first one, timeout never happens.
> When I run the second one, timeout works ok.
> Why dont I get the timeout when using the dialog box input method?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonas Jarnestrom
> 
> (defun dialog-box-timeout-never-happens ()
>   (let* ((last-nonmenu-event nil))
>     (y-or-n-p-with-timeout "prompt" 3 'timeout)))
> 
> (defun minibuffer-timeout-works ()
>   (let* ((foo nil))
>     (y-or-n-p-with-timeout "prompt" 3 'timeout)))

	Jan D.