From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:42:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831urltce4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EFEB817.5000501@dancol.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:21:59 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Windows takes pains to not send out useless message broadcasts. Other
> than these broadcasts, a program is only woken to receive a message
> when something specifically sends it a message. If there's no system
> activity, or the only activity is unrelated to Emacs, Emacs won't
> receive any messages and won't wake up.
As long as no messages arrive, the w32 message-reading thread is blocked
inside the call to WaitForSingleObject (see w32xfns.c:get_next_message).
This call has no timeout, so it will block indefinitely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-31 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 23:54 Power: blink-cursor-mode is a pig Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 3:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-12-30 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-30 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 9:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-12-30 9:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 11:58 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 12:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-30 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 12:49 ` 山本 光晴
2011-12-30 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31 3:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-12-31 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-31 7:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-12-31 7:42 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2011-12-31 10:59 ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-31 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-12-30 14:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-12-30 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-30 13:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-12-30 14:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-12-31 18:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-31 18:11 ` Lennart Borgman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-31 12:00 grischka
2011-12-31 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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