From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: call-process blocks the active thread
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:01:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837ex9znba.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtN0WL1G-aUw_BdnLL_5OQ4S9psUZjGs4yee50+3fPLM6BpFg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Elias Mårtenson on Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:00:42 +0800)
> From: Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:00:42 +0800
>
> As it turns out, ‘call-process’ hangs all of Emacs while the external program is run.
No, it hangs the calling thread, and the other threads wait for the
calling thread to yield. To avoid that, use start-process instead.
This is not a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-08 3:00 call-process blocks the active thread Elias Mårtenson
2017-09-08 3:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-08 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-08 7:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-08 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-08 10:36 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-09-08 11:27 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-08 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-08 16:12 ` Tom Tromey
2017-09-08 18:43 ` Tom Tromey
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