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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Interruptible wait_for_termination
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:43:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838va9xpqs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

The function wait_for_termination_1 can be "interruptible" if called
with its second argument non-zero.  But what it does is this:

  while (1)
    {
      int status;
      int wait_result = waitpid (pid, &status, 0);
      if (wait_result < 0)
	{
	  if (errno != EINTR)
	    break;
	}
      else
	{
	  record_child_status_change (wait_result, status);
	  break;
	}

      if (interruptible)
	QUIT;
    }

What I don't understand here is how can this be "interruptible" when
the process specified by PID did not yet exit, and the call to waitpid
blocks.  It seems that the only way to interrupt that blocking call is
to deliver a signal to Emacs, either SIGINT or some other signal that
would interrupt waitpid.  IOW, just C-g will _not_ break the above
loop (except on a TTY, where C-g generates a SIGINT).

So can someone please explain how exactly does a user interrupt this
"interruptible" waiting, if, say, the called process never exits?

I'm asking because I'd like to make the w32 emulation of waitpid
behave in the same way.  It currently checks for QUIT internally,
while it waits for the process to exit, but I'm not sure this is
identical to the Posix behavior.

TIA



             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-10 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-10 18:43 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-10 21:31 ` Interruptible wait_for_termination Paul Eggert
2012-11-11  3:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-11  6:36     ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-11 12:28     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-11-11 16:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-11 19:00         ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-12  5:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-11-12 15:52   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-12 17:31     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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