From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, aaronjensen@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A whole lotta auto-saving going
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:04:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k0sjfrad.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8s90861i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 10 Jan 2021 23:23:23 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, aaronjensen@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 23:23:23 -0500
>
> Apparently, the early exit from `wait_reading_process_output` comes from
> the following `break`:
>
> if (!process_skipped && got_some_output > 0
> && (timeout.tv_sec > 0 || timeout.tv_nsec > 0))
> {
> if (!timespec_valid_p (got_output_end_time))
> break;
>
> Does someone here understanding something of what
> `wait_reading_process_output` does and what it is expected to do?
You mean, in general? or in this specific case?
The latter is described by the comment above this fragment.
> Why does it exit here before the end of the timeout? IIUC it is
> supposed to exit as soon as we got some output from `wait_proc`, but in
> this case `wait_proc` is NULL. Is it also supposed to exit when some
> process output arrives? If so, shouldn't `sit_for` wrap the call to
> `wait_reading_process_output` inside a loop to make sure we wait the
> whole timeout?
I think sitting for the entire period is undesirable, since receiving
output from a process might require redisplay. In that case, waiting
could make Emacs seem unresponsive or busy, whereas it really isn't.
I think a simple solution to this would be to check the time passed
after sit_for returns, and if some of the wait time is left, not call
auto-save. This would mimic what happened before the offending
changeset.
We could, of course, add a loop inside sit_for, but that function is
called in a few other places, and even in this place it isn't certain
that we never want it to return early upon receiving process output.
So, while adding a loop, and then dealing with whatever further
breakage this will cause could be an exciting project, I'm not sure we
are looking for such an excitement. One cleanup at a time, okay?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-11 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-06 22:05 A whole lotta auto-saving going Aaron Jensen
2021-01-07 12:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-07 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 14:05 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-01-08 14:19 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-01-10 11:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-10 15:08 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-01-10 15:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-10 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-01-11 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-11 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-13 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-18 16:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-10 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-10 18:34 ` T.V Raman
2021-01-10 18:54 ` Aaron Jensen
2021-01-12 16:02 ` T.V Raman via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-07 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 11:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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