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: Network security manager Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:49:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83vbmc8c9e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85a93pj1n5.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87sihg7r73.fsf@alrua-karlstad.karlstad.toke.dk> <87a93oilxl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oas4h555.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a93oh180.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83h9xw9zg3.fsf@gnu.org> <83d28k9yb9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416343828 19544 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2014 20:50:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 21:50:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqpjA-0001xz-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:50:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqpjA-0007ag-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqpis-0007Xh-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqpin-0001rk-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:50:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:43112) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqpin-0001r4-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:49:57 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF900F005NIHD00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:49:55 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF900FGF5V6CI50@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:49:55 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:177654 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:40:37 -0500 > > >> Now I just need to know how to determine if a function is running from > >> an async callback... > > There's a C variable called running_asynch_code, but it's not exposed to > > Lisp. Unless there's something else in there that can be used, should > > we just export that to Lisp, like the `noninteractive' variable? > > I guess we could export it (read-only) to Lisp, yes. That variable is an internal implementation detail designed for a specific purpose that has nothing to do with running asynchronously. Exposing it to Lisp is IMO extremely unclean. Especially since this is not really needed anyway, because Lars's use case has a much simpler solution that doesn't require any such kludges. So I'm violently opposed to this. But since Lars blatantly ignored even your requests, who am I to complain?