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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change in process.c
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:11:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abxxwggy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460A73BE.8020304@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Wed\, 28 Mar 2007 09\:55\:10 -0400")

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> there must be a sleep BEFORE the first wait.
> something equivalent to your version was tried and found lacking.

I can understand the explanation of why a busyloop would cause Emacs
to eat CPU; but why does issuing the wait3 before the first sleep
cause problems?  AFAIK, no one has ever offered an explanation for
this.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-26 23:13 Change in process.c Richard Stallman
2007-03-27  3:06 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-27  9:55   ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-27 10:33     ` Nick Roberts
2007-03-27 16:43     ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-27 21:16       ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-27 22:11         ` Nick Roberts
2007-03-28 14:02           ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-28 21:09             ` Nick Roberts
2007-03-28 13:55         ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-28 14:13           ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-28 15:25             ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-28 19:08               ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-28 20:57                 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-29  6:12                   ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-29 21:25                     ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-28 15:11           ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-03-28 16:09         ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-29 13:57 ` Randal L. Schwartz

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