From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reading D-Bus messages Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:49:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9BBD5C.30201@cornell.edu> References: <878w2tx6gk.fsf@gmx.de> <4C9A493F.4050701@cornell.edu> <874odhyliu.fsf@gmx.de> <4C9B452E.1040101@cornell.edu> <4C9B63A1.2060604@cornell.edu> <87y6asy0uh.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285275022 29053 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2010 20:50:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:50:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 23 22:50:21 2010 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 1OyskG-0007MB-KH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:50:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyskG-0005I9-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59939 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oysk9-0005Hu-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oysk8-0004mK-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:55513 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oysk7-0004em-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpe-67-249-196-94.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.196.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id o8NKnoI9004840; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:49:51 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <87y6asy0uh.fsf@gmx.de> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100923-0, 09/23/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:130699 Archived-At: On 9/23/2010 10:46 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: > Ken Brown writes: > >> I was wrong about SIGIO being defined in Cygwin. (I was careless in >> my grepping and didn't look closely enough at the header files.) And >> an answer just appeared on the Cygwin list, saying that SIGIO is >> undefined because the functionality is not implemented. >> >> So now the question is just finding the best way to deal with this. >> Do you understand why gobble_input is called only if SIGIO is defined? > > Don't know. ChangeLog.1 says: > > 1986-01-23 Richard M. Stallman (rms@prep) > > * dispnew.c (Fsit_for): > Call gobble_input only if SIGIO exists. > > 1985-11-01 Richard M. Stallman (rms@prep) > > * keyboard.c (gobble_input, input_available_signal, > kbd_buffer_store_char): > Make these functions exist only if SIGIO is defined. > > 1985-10-16 Richard M. Stallman (rms@mit-prep) > > * keyboard.c: > Get error instead of croaking if want to send SIGTSTP. > Get compile time error in gobble_input if SIGIO is not > defined. Well, I'll just try it for a while and see if I notice any problems as a result of using gobble_input without SIGIO. If not, I'll upload a new Cygwin test release and see what happens. Thank you very much for all the time and effort you put into this. Best regards, Ken