From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why does write-region use message_with_string? Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:41:53 +0300 Message-ID: <8338noh6tq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20131026012733.5f35a2a5@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382769732 1690 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2013 06:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 06:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, forcer@forcix.cx To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 26 08:42:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZxZf-0007LS-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:42:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZxZe-0008J0-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 02:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZxZX-0008Iv-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 02:42:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZxZS-0001TD-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 02:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZxZR-0001T9-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 02:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MV900500JVFFN00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:42:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MV9005UWJXZA830@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:42:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164554 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:42:46 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > In fileio.c:4995, this function calls message_with_string directly, > > circumventing lisp completely. > > It can probably be changed to call `message'. I think write-region might be called when Emacs is crashing. At that time, it might not be safe to call Lisp. > But I'd be surprised if there aren't other places where you will > bump into similar problems. At least do-auto-save does the same.