From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!! [11 times]
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:48:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zkvu5yr9.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv62yieeqa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> It means just that: accept-process-output is called in a way that can
> block (e.g. because some remote host doesn't respond) wit inhibit0quit
> set to a non-nil value, which means that Emacs may end up frozen (with
> no way to wake it up) for as long as the remote machine decides not
> to answer.
But all calls to `accept-process-output' in Gnus is called with a
timeout parameter, so there's no way Emacs could totally lock up. I
think. (It's typically called with a 0.1s or 0.01s timeout.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-06 21:48 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 [this message]
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
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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