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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Threading IO-bound functions
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 05:39:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fulk610j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtN0WJQbtEkFaXEmnNmLp8uKFSa5A=WQrk4b0Px3Dh4je_qrg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Elias Mårtenson on Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:03:32 +0800)

> From: Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:03:32 +0800
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
>  I think we need first to solve the above problem in some way. Or
>  change Gnus to not ask any questions from a background thread.
> 
> I think most questions are asked using ‘read-string’ or some variant like ‘completing-read’, right? At the very
> least, I think that concurrent Emacs needs to make sure that the behaviour of these functions are well-defined
> in the context of threading.

I asked for thoughts and ideas about this in bug#25214.  So far no
replies, which I find unfortunate and, frankly, surprising.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-19  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15  4:01 Threading IO-bound functions Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-16 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19  3:03   ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19  3:39     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-19  7:06       ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-19 17:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 17:43         ` The event handling thread (was: Threading IO-bound functions) John Wiegley
2016-12-20 16:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-21  1:04             ` The event handling thread John Wiegley
2016-12-21 11:05               ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-21 17:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-22  3:12                   ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-12-22 17:37                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-16 22:05 ` Threading IO-bound functions Ken Raeburn

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