From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12447: 24.1.50; Stuck in garbage collection on OS X Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:19:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20120915.151909.318452080619853688.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <20120915.130710.337227137258656213.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <834nmztqkp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347715217 15480 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2012 13:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12447@debbugs.gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 15:20:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsI3-00012N-Ea for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:20:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsHz-00036G-9a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsHw-000363-QT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsHv-0002mA-QL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsHv-0002m6-Mv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsIw-0006di-9p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:21:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12447 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12447-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12447.134771522025473 (code B ref 12447); Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12447) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Sep 2012 13:20:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35077 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsIG-0006co-6Q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from hylle02.itea.ntnu.no ([129.241.56.101]:34996) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TCsID-0006cf-Ds for 12447@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hylle02.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DC22C027 for <12447@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:19:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at hylle02.itea.ntnu.no Original-Received: from anne.math.ntnu.no (anne.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.150]) by hylle02.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 306672C025 for <12447@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:19:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 6476 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2012 13:19:12 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.58) by anne.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 15 Sep 2012 13:19:12 -0000 In-Reply-To: <834nmztqkp.fsf@gnu.org> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.2.50 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:64361 Archived-At: [Eli Zaretskii (2012-09-15 12:31:50 UTC)] > No, the real story of how timers work is in process.c. See the > function wait_reading_process_output there, which runs the timers via > the call to timer_check around line 4444; time_check and its > subroutines are in keyboard.c. > > timer.el is just the Lisp interface to that code, used to create, > delete, and manage timer objects. Okay, I'll study it; but it seems ludicrous that you need to read C code in order to use timers from elisp without causing emacs to hang. I almost feel like filing a documentation bug report. But I'll try to gain a better understanding of the issue before considering that. - Harald