From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master af152ffab1: Don't freeze if the compositing manager crashes
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 11:06:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wnbv58jh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735ejm6bb.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 30 Jul 2022 15:02:32 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 15:02:32 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > There are a few places in Emacs that wait for similar reasons, so my
> > suggestion is to do this like they do, i.e. by calling
> > wait_reading_process_output. The advantage is that we let other code
> > and other threads to run while we wait.
>
> The problem here is Emacs doesn't just "wait" for an event, it has to
> use X(Check)IfEvent to remove that single event from the event queue, in
> effect processing it "out-of-order".
>
> So unfortunately wait_reading_process_output doesn't quite fit the bill
> here.
Why not?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-30 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-30 6:03 master af152ffab1: Don't freeze if the compositing manager crashes Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 7:02 ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-07-30 8:37 ` Po Lu
2022-07-30 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-30 10:39 ` Po Lu
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