On 11/21/2014 02:36 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>> I'm not sure, but I suspect that `inhibit-quit' is not a complete
>> solution to the general problem of determining when we're allowed to
>> prompt people from asynchronous code.
> 
> Prompting from asynchronous code is always bad.

Agreed. Prompting from asynchronous code always races with C-g: users can type C-g at arbitrary times for arbitrary reasons, and that C-g can accidentally dismiss an asynchronously-displayed prompt.