From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101633: Add fd handling with callbacks to select, dbus needs it for async operation. Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:53:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA0859D.5050309@swipnet.se> References: <4C9FB21E.209@swipnet.se> <83k4m8qi8q.fsf@gnu.org> <4CA039F3.1050102@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285588398 13649 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2010 11:53:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 13:53:17 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 1P0CGi-0003Pc-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:53:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0CGh-000504-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34301 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0CGb-0004yX-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0CGZ-000214-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h32.telenor.se ([213.150.131.5]:50391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0CGT-0001zc-MA; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:53:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ipb4.telenor.se (ipb4.telenor.se [195.54.127.167]) by smtprelay-h32.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E50E9984; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:52:59 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.35] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AolCALcioExV4S0jPGdsb2JhbACHbJpEDAEBAQE1LcUUhUQEjTg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,243,1283724000"; d="scan'208";a="1675573795" Original-Received: from c-232de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.35]) by ipb4.telenor.se with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2010 13:52:59 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.2] (gaffa [172.20.199.2]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id A894C7FA05A; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:52:58 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.0.8 In-Reply-To: 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:130990 Archived-At: 2010-09-27 12:33, Dan Nicolaescu skrev: > Jan Dj=E4rv writes: > >> 2010-09-26 23:59, Eli Zaretskii skrev: >>>> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:50:38 +0200 >>>> From: Jan Dj=E4rv >>>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >>>> >>>> I wish define:s would say what they are about. >>> >>> It's never too late to start documenting them (or change their names >>> to something self-explanatory, for that matter, if it's possible). >>> >> >> This case may be simple, but what does subprocesses (for exampe) mean? > > It currently means !MSDOS. > IMO we should just get rid of it and replace it with !MSDOS in order to= simplify the code. > The probability that there would be a need to port the current emacs to > an OS that does not have subprocess support is very close to zero (or z= ero). > How about all these new tablets? It isn't unreasonable to have Emacs the= re,=20 but do they actually have subprocesses capability like exec:ing grep or m= ake? Jan D.