From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: process_send_string blocks?
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 03:09:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y4txdvbh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
I'm trying to use a background process to parse buffer text, and send
results back to Emacs.
For large buffers, Emacs hangs; only killing the background process
externally recovers. This does not happen for small buffers (< 5k bytes?).
It appears that process-send-string is blocked on a full IO send queue,
while the background process is also blocked on a full IO send queue.
On reading process.c, I believe this should not happen, if the OS supports
EWOULDBLOCK.
Is that true, even when there is only one call to process-send-string that
sends the entire buffer?
The doc string for process-send-string says "if > 500 chars, string is
sent in bunches", but I see no evidence of that in process.c. Is that
refering to the OS IO queue buffer size?
I'm running on Windows 7, using the Windows binary
emacs-23.4-bin-i386.zip from the FSF FTP site.
Is EWOULDBLOCK supported on this system?
I'll try compiling Emacs from source so I can run the debugger; I've
never tried that on Windows before.
I'd hate to have to code the partial read/partial write logic at the
elisp level.
--
-- Stephe
next reply other threads:[~2014-09-06 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-06 8:09 Stephen Leake [this message]
2014-09-06 8:28 ` process_send_string blocks? Jorgen Schaefer
2014-09-06 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-06 13:11 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-06 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-07 8:21 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-07 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-07 20:32 ` Stephen Leake
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