From: chris <cwittern@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: synchronous network communication?
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:04:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e531cf5-adcd-4a77-802e-f3fe3dd2ab65@r40g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2lj2k571x.fsf@gmail.com
On Jan 17, 4:21 pm, Helmut Eller <eller.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So my question is: is there
> > a way to do this communication in an asynchronous manner?
>
> If you mean synchronous manner, then the answer is no.
A yes, as I said in the subject line, this is what I was looking for.
A blocking API
> would block the event loop and Emacs would appear to be "frozen".
I see. Thinking of it, this makes sense:-)
>
> You can however use a process-filter. That's a function that is called
> with the data received from the other end. So you always know when data is
> ready to process.
Based on your answer, I found "accept-process-output", which seems to
more or less to do what I need, that is, giving the process time to do
its business and then allow me to continue. Preliminary tests seem to
suggest that this speeds up things substantially.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-18 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-17 3:15 synchronous network communication? chris
2011-01-17 7:21 ` Helmut Eller
2011-01-18 7:04 ` chris [this message]
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