From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: grischka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: System calls without error checks in w32 Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:21:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4C0D2A87.3070403@gmx.de> References: <4C037EFE.4040304@gmx.de> <87zkz9qu2r.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <4C0CCBCE.8080503@gmx.de> <87k4qa99l4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275931315 16254 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2010 17:21:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 07 19:21:53 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLg1G-0000sU-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:21:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OLg1E-0003LA-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55269 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OLg12-00037y-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLg10-0000I0-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36544) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLg10-0000HD-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Jun 2010 17:21:31 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [10.62.20.16]) [82.113.106.188] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 07 Jun 2010 19:21:31 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18588216 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19M5YM3dhtMZSXPDi7N3dDWVzz3e+aefTqdJGq68F OVmfTZ7fpeVQjj User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125596 Archived-At: 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