From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AW: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run fromtimer-event-handler Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:51:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123703866 10478 80.91.229.2 (10 Aug 2005 19:57:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kzeitler@lucent.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 10 21:57:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2wgK-0006vJ-HS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:56:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2wjS-0006GQ-BY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2wi2-0005vN-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:57:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2whz-0005tL-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2whz-0005s6-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E2wsQ-0002CU-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E2wc5-00019i-HN; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:51:45 -0400 Original-To: In-reply-to: (klaus.berndl@sdm.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41868 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41868 In fact: ECB has some tasks which should be run really(!) stealthy, like checking if a dir is empty, getting the VC-state of all files in a dir, checking which files in a dir are read-only... in case of a remote host The best way to do this and make sure it is stealthy is by running a subprocess. The subprocess can run in parallel with Emacs.