From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: block_input for some APIs Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:01:19 +0200 Message-ID: <831sxdc9hs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481567818 24745 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2016 18:36:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:36:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 19:36:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cGVT2-0005Dp-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:36:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32858 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGVT3-0006tb-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGUu6-0000aW-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGUu1-00046L-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60863) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGUu1-00046H-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:00:41 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4778 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cGUu1-0005ME-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:00:41 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210366 Archived-At: Does anyone remember why we block input around calls to functions like getpwnam or tzset or fwrite? I understand why we do that when we mess with stuff related to the window-system or the window manager, but why do the above function need that protection? TIA