From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The event handling thread
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:04:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a8bq9job.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wpeu37nq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:08:25 +0200")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> To see the above machinery in action, try this:
> (defun infloop ()
> (with-temp-buffer (while t (insert "foo"))))
> (make-thread #'infloop "thread-loop")
> As soon as you start the looping thread, any keyboard input, like M-x or
> cursor motion commands, doesn't have any effect, until you type C-g (which
> causes the looping thread to exit), because the looping thread never yields.
Ah, this is the bit I was missing. It's clear to me now, thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-21 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 4:01 Threading IO-bound functions Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-16 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 3:03 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 7:06 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 17:43 ` The event handling thread (was: Threading IO-bound functions) John Wiegley
2016-12-20 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-21 1:04 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-12-21 11:05 ` The event handling thread Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-21 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-22 3:12 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-22 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-16 22:05 ` Threading IO-bound functions Ken Raeburn
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