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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: hw <hw@adminart.net>
Cc: gazally@runbox.com, rms@gnu.org, psainty@orcon.net.nz,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	emacs-devel-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: User interaction from multiple threads
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:32:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va7w8dt8.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871sakl97g.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> (hw@adminart.net's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 06:33:39 +0200")

hw <hw@adminart.net> writes:

> Simple: Either both threads are in the background because meanwhile, I'm
> doing something else, or one of the threads is in the background and the
> other one is in the foreground.

Emacs does not support parallel execution of threads. There's only one
thread which is active, no other thread "in the background" is working
the same time. They are either blocked, or waiting that control is
given to them.

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-27  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-14 15:12 User interaction from multiple threads Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-14 16:42 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-15  8:02   ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-16 14:25   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17  2:59     ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-08-17  8:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15  8:06 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15  8:22   ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15  9:08     ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 10:30       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 12:27         ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 12:59           ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-15 16:27             ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-15 18:04               ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  4:26                 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17  4:32                   ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17  7:33                   ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  7:48                     ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-17  8:11                       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  9:02                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-15 16:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:21             ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:46               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17  7:24                 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17  7:48                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-17  8:34                     ` martin rudalics
2018-08-17  8:52                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-08-17  9:06                       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-17  9:12                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-18  8:31                         ` martin rudalics
2018-08-18  9:32                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19  9:17                             ` martin rudalics
2018-08-15 16:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 12:20     ` martin rudalics
2018-08-16 13:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-16 15:19         ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-20 14:36     ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 15:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-19 23:08 ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20  1:18   ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-20 14:15     ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-20 17:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 17:36         ` John Shahid
2018-08-30  0:18           ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-30  2:34             ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 13:10               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 16:08                 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 17:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 20:15                     ` John Shahid
2018-08-31 18:06                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-31 21:37                       ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-09-01  7:00                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 17:03   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-20 22:38     ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-21 15:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22  4:05         ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 14:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 15:48             ` hw
2018-08-22 17:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 19:34                 ` hw
2018-08-22 23:58               ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23  0:22                 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-24  1:59                   ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-23 14:08                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-23 22:34                   ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-24  8:51                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 12:59                       ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25  0:21                       ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25  0:16                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24  2:00                   ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-24  3:57                     ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-24  9:20                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 11:44                       ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-24 15:41                         ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25 11:58                           ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-27 10:53                             ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-08-25  0:20                       ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25  7:51                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 10:32                           ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-25 19:11                           ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-25 19:51                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 12:52                               ` hw
2018-08-26 14:43                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27  4:33                                   ` hw
2018-08-27  7:32                                     ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2018-08-27 14:35                                       ` hw
2018-08-27 15:29                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 18:43                                           ` hw
2018-08-28  5:39                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 20:47                                               ` hw
2018-08-27 15:06                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 19:46                                       ` hw
2018-08-28  5:38                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 13:05                                           ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-28 16:50                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 22:05                                           ` hw
2018-08-29 15:20                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 20:00                                               ` hw
2018-08-30 13:48                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:32                                                   ` hw
2018-09-01 18:55                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-02 16:37                                                       ` hw
2018-09-02 17:20                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 22:30                                                     ` Drew Adams
2018-09-02 16:43                                                       ` hw
2018-08-30  1:16                                   ` Uday S Reddy
2018-08-30 13:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-30 21:12                                       ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-31 18:17                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-01 17:33                                     ` hw
2018-08-26 20:43                               ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-22 16:24           ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22 17:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 16:16               ` Tom Tromey
2018-08-22  7:18         ` martin rudalics
2018-08-22 14:32           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-21 16:17     ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-08-30  0:21 ` Uday Reddy
2018-08-30 13:01   ` Eli Zaretskii

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