From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
Cc: Miguel Guedes <miguel.a.guedes@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: process.c: read_process_output: hard coded 4096 bytes read limit
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:16:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzjud6mjp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sj059j9o.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:57:39 +0200")
> How would you use accept-process-output with an asynchronous process
> channel? E.g. when would you call it? How do you know when there is
> data available?
> Presumably the protocol specifies a format for the received data that
> includes some kind of "end of message" marker. You know there is data
> available when that marker is not present (given a well-formed message).
> For example:
But accept-process-output is synchronous: while running it, nothing else
can happen. It's important to make sure that the performance is good
enough with accept-process-output but it should *also* be good enough
without accept-process-output.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-22 10:05 process.c: read_process_output: hard coded 4096 bytes read limit Miguel Guedes
2013-06-22 17:27 ` Paul Eggert
2013-06-23 8:59 ` Miguel Guedes
2013-06-23 9:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-06-25 8:20 ` Miguel Guedes
2013-06-26 11:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-06-26 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-06-27 6:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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