From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Crashing the new thread code
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:58:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-92OC7kUGfBM4p=C0MvBuJiRPhVCzLUB47QeM09hMUNUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1gy2mat.fsf@irif.fr>
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:
>>> The following immediately crashes Emacs:
>>>
>>> (let ((thread (make-thread #'(lambda () (while t (thread-yield))))))
>>> (thread-signal thread 'error nil))
>
>> What is the semantics of signaling a thread that yields?
>
> I'm not sure, that's why I was experimenting.
>
>> What did you expect to happen?
>
> The thread queues the condition and continues spinning?
I would expect the thread to receive the signal as soon as it starts
running again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-11 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-11 18:37 Crashing the new thread code Juliusz Chroboczek
2016-12-11 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-11 21:22 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2016-12-11 21:58 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2016-12-11 22:56 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2016-12-12 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-12 4:10 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-12-12 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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