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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Alexander Miller <alexanderm@web.de>,  yyoncho@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 11:21:33 -0400
> 
> > It is unusual for non-main threads to wait for keyboard input
> > descriptor.  You shouldn't rely on that because it can only work very
> > rarely, if at all, and when it does, you are likely to see serious
> > problems.  Normally, the 'pselect' call issued by a non-main thread
> > will not mark the keyboard descriptor as being waited for.
> 
> Should input-pending-p and friends catch that case and signal an error, then?

Do we want that?