Re: Asynchronous events in Carbon or Cocoa Emacs (macosx)

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:

> >>>>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:51:22 +0000 (UTC), Lloyd Zusman <ljz <at>
asfast.com> said:
> 
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > In other words, if I am trapping [sigusr1] as described above and
> > send a USR1 signal to the process, nothing happens until after I
> > click in the Emacs window with the mouse or perform some sort of
> > keyboard interaction with it, at which time the [sigusr1] events
> > that have accumulated all get processed, one after the other.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> That's a known limitation in the `select' emulation of the Carbon
> port, and I mentioned that when I updated the platform-independent
> part of user-signal handling code to the current form:
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-12/msg00443.html
> 
> I have some experimental code to remedy this limitation, but it's not
> tested that much.
> 
> 				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
> 				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
> 
> [ ... etc. ... ]

Thank you very much.

I do remember reading that post, but I confess that at the time, I
didn't understand the significance of it regarding the issue that I
reported here.

I'll get a hold of the Carbon Emacs source code and play with this
patch. Once I have some results, I'll post them here.


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com
 God bless you.