From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: why "in_sighandler"? Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:43:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87psevdhpc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <44E88FCA.5050705@swipnet.se> <44E9503E.7030609@swipnet.se> <44E95E71.30203@swipnet.se> <44E972EC.8000903@swipnet.se> <44E999CE.3080403@swipnet.se> <44EAA67E.1060400@swipnet.se> <44EABF0C.7000207@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156239822 31330 80.91.229.2 (22 Aug 2006 09:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 11:43:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFSnC-0006xv-3y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:43:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFSnB-0008PG-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFSn0-0008P1-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFSmx-0008O3-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFSmx-0008Nv-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GFSuX-0008IZ-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258C3101AA; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:43:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= X-Yow: Pardon me, but do you know what it means to be TRULY ONE with your BOOTH! In-Reply-To: <44EABF0C.7000207@swipnet.se> (Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv's?= message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:23:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:58705 Archived-At: Jan Dj=E4rv writes: > What exactly do you mean by interrupted? In the sense that they don't = get > to execute, yes they are interrupted. When a signal handler is running= , > no threads can run (on a single CPU machine), hence they are all > interrupted. Signal handler execution can be preempted like any other code path in you= r program. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."