From: grischka <grishka@gmx.de>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: System calls without error checks in w32
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:21:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0D2A87.3070403@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil5J9r4pa4jQaHqfiHOYz4N57ubzCh3uQLLr-8A@mail.gmail.com>
Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I guess the idea of having two event loops/thread is not in itself
> bad. If the gui thread is never blocked it can be used to convey
> status information at least to the user. (You can put these in
> temporary windows inside the frame for example.)
Since this is Emacs you'd probably want to format your status info
in Lisp. Bye nice idea and welcome to thread hell.
> But sometimes I wonder wheter all windows really runs in the gui
> threads. And why does not C-g break all looping, even those in timers
> (like fontification)? And is it the same trouble on other platfoms or
> is it just the w32 port that has this?
>
> And moreover I wonder wether all messages really reach their
> destinations or if something is blocking them in certain situations.
> (Again, why is not C-g handled in the case above?)
>
> And what is blocking Emacs during the time when a new frame is
> created? Why is not that done asynchronously?
>
I guess there are some people wondering sometimes about something.
Thread bugs typically show up sometimes. And typically you'll find
nobody who wants to look at them.
--- grischka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-07 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-31 9:18 System calls without error checks in w32 grischka
2010-06-05 17:15 ` Jason Rumney
2010-06-07 10:37 ` grischka
2010-06-07 14:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-07 15:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-07 17:21 ` grischka [this message]
2010-06-07 17:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-07 18:54 ` grischka
2010-06-08 0:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-08 0:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-07 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-07 23:35 ` Lennart Borgman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-29 2:38 Lennart Borgman
2010-05-29 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-29 18:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-29 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-29 20:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-29 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-29 21:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 3:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-30 3:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-30 18:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 19:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-30 22:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-30 23:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-30 23:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 0:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-31 0:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 2:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-31 2:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 3:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-05-31 3:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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