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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!! [11 times]
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:33:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bp89xv1s.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmxrtdeox.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:38:33 +0200")

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

[ emacs hanging ]
Stefan> (IIRC, one such is during hostname lookup, but I don't know of
Stefan> any such case once the TCP connection is established).

I've been bitten by this a number of times.

It seems to me that Emacs could either resolve names in a separate
thread (so the originating thread could handle other I/O and be
interruptable) or do the work in a subprocess.

Tom



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-06 21:23 Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!! [11 times] Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-06 21:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-06 21:48   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-07  7:08   ` joakim
2010-09-07 10:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-07 11:11       ` joakim
2010-09-07 11:53         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-07 13:25           ` joakim
2010-09-07 16:30             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-08  8:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-07 18:33       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-09-08  8:12         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-07 11:54   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-08  8:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-08 16:29       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-08 18:54         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-08 18:56           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-08 22:54             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-08 23:29               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-17  0:36                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-17 15:43                   ` Stefan Monnier

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