From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the state of the concurrency branch
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:10:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y57kedo5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874na9talu.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:54:53 -0600
>
> >> . Will the handling of SIGCHLD be thread-specific or global? IOW, if
> >> a thread fires up a subprocess, which exits while another thread is
> >> running, which thread(s) will get the signal? If the signal
> >> arrives at some other thread, how will that thread know to handle
> >> it, if it doesn't watch the corresponding fd's?
>
> Eli> Please answer this question, if you can: I need the answer to analyze
> Eli> what, if any, changes are needed in how Emacs on Windows handles
> Eli> process demise and emulates SIGCHLD. Currently, we watch all of the
> Eli> subprocesses inside the 'pselect' call; the question is: should we
> Eli> only watch those of them that are relevant to the thread that calls
> Eli> 'pselect'.
>
> I have to look into it and I haven't found the time.
> I will try to get to it soon.
Thanks. It's actually no more urgent than the other decisions to be
made before the concurrency branch is merged.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-29 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-25 19:26 the state of the concurrency branch Tom Tromey
2013-08-25 19:36 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-25 19:43 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-25 20:02 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-26 14:55 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-25 20:30 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-26 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-26 17:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-26 17:19 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-26 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-26 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-27 2:30 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-27 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-27 18:05 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-27 18:23 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-27 18:39 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-27 18:46 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-27 18:52 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-27 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-27 19:12 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-27 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-27 19:14 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-27 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-27 19:29 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-28 0:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-28 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-28 4:31 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-28 4:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-28 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-28 13:48 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-28 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-28 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-29 3:54 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-29 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-08-31 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-31 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-31 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-01 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-02 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-28 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-28 2:34 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-27 18:33 ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-28 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-16 18:24 Barry OReilly
2013-10-16 20:25 ` Barry OReilly
2013-10-18 1:41 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-18 3:32 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-18 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 18:16 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-19 18:41 ` Richard Stallman
2013-10-19 19:29 ` Barry OReilly
2013-10-19 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-20 0:41 ` Barry OReilly
2013-10-21 15:08 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-21 16:07 ` Barry OReilly
2013-10-21 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-19 20:21 ` Barry OReilly
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