From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A strange issue with buffer-undo-list
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:58:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z2g5eby.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvo8g8i65t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> But if they are to drop buzzwords, isn't this
>> a transaction?
>
> No. It's only part of the properties of a transaction.
> The one called "atomicity". In the context of programming
> language, atomicity is also important for concurrency (where
> people usually use locks and stuff where the purpose is to
> get atomicity of the "critical region").
Interesting...
Semaphores and mutex to avoid race conditions?
Can you do that in Emacs even tho Emacs isn't Unix (POSIX)?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-25 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-23 5:19 A strange issue with buffer-undo-list Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-24 0:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-25 5:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-25 5:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-25 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-25 15:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-03-08 21:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-26 0:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-08 21:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-03-09 0:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-09 21:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-24 2:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-24 3:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-02-24 4:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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