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From: grischka <grishka@gmx.de>
To: eliz@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:00:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFEF964.4040604@gmx.de> (raw)

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:21:59 -0800
>> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
>> Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> 
>> Windows takes pains to not send out useless message broadcasts.  Other
>> than these broadcasts, a program is only woken to receive a message
>> when something specifically sends it a message.  If there's no system
>> activity, or the only activity is unrelated to Emacs, Emacs won't
>> receive any messages and won't wake up.
> 
> As long as no messages arrive, the w32 message-reading thread is blocked
> inside the call to WaitForSingleObject (see w32xfns.c:get_next_message).
> This call has no timeout, so it will block indefinitely.

(A) w32xfns.c:get_next_message doesn't run in the "w32 message-reading thread"
and (B) never calls WaitForSingleObject.

--- grischka



             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-31 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-31 12:00 grischka [this message]
2011-12-31 14:40 ` Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-29 23:54 Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30  3:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-12-30 16:54   ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-30  9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30  9:19   ` Lennart Borgman
2011-12-30  9:20   ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 11:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 11:58       ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 12:39         ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 15:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 12:49       ` 山本 光晴
2011-12-30 15:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31  3:47           ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-12-31  7:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31  7:21               ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-31  7:42                 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-12-31 10:59                   ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-31  7:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 14:37   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-12-30 15:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 13:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-12-30 14:46   ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-12-31 18:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-31 18:11   ` Lennart Borgman

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