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: Redirecting standard output Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:10:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83ei4sbuf3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83oc402ky4.fsf@gnu.org> <8362q73dap.fsf@gnu.org> <876FF1E0-A9BB-4804-845C-46947AC085EE@swipnet.se> <4DB08348.3040208@lanl.gov> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303589510 13129 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2011 20:11:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 23 22:11:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDjB9-0007Ca-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:11:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33392 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDjB8-0005Cf-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54597) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDjB3-0005CV-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDjAz-0003Nr-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64622) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDjAy-0003Nn-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LK400J00FVWTM00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:10:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.55.52]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LK400J9YG1QSQ40@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:10:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:138663 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:46:36 +0200 > > >> Or are there gotchas when using select in Emacs? > > > > wait_reading_process_output already uses select, so adding another one > > is probably not a good idea. > > Would `select'-ing on two separate collections of sockets cause any > problems? I don't know. I never tried, and I don't know enough about the implementation of `select'. But I envision difficulties in multiplexing between the two `select' calls, if, e.g., there's an async subprocess running (like a speller in some text buffer) and you invoke a program via call-process.