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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: block_input for some APIs
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:46:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r35cbie0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r025y3zk3jc2.fsf@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:53:33 -0800)

> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:53:33 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> That said, the existing calls to block_input don't do a lot of harm, so
> there's no need to remove them.

They make the code trickier to read and understand, because
block_input, unblock_input, and input_blocked_p are not thread-safe.
It took me a while to convince myself they are not an issue with the
current concurrency design, except in xgselect.c, and I'm still not
sure my conclusion is 100% valid.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-12 18:01 block_input for some APIs Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-12 21:08 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-12 21:48   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-12 21:53     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-12-13  3:46       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-13  0:13     ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-12-13  3:43   ` Eli Zaretskii

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