From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: jch@irif.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Crashing the new thread code
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:41:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oa0hddb9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-92OC7kUGfBM4p=C0MvBuJiRPhVCzLUB47QeM09hMUNUg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:58:49 -0500)
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:58:49 -0500
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> >> What did you expect to happen?
> >
> > The thread queues the condition and continues spinning?
>
> I would expect the thread to receive the signal as soon as it starts
> running again.
What would be the indication of the thread receiving the signal? Both
in general and specifically in Juliusz's snippet?
Please note that the current implementation effectively makes non-main
threads run with all errors caught, so signaling an error has much
less spectacular consequences than in the main thread.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-11 18:37 Crashing the new thread code Juliusz Chroboczek
2016-12-11 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-11 21:22 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2016-12-11 21:58 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-11 22:56 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2016-12-12 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-12 4:10 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-12 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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