From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sit-for Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:52:42 -0400 Message-ID: <87mzaonhdh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <854px1e8xx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <877j1spg1d.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154476394 18171 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2006 23:53:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 01:53:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G842n-0008M8-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:53:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G842m-0007Q9-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G842c-0007P3-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:52:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G842b-0007Os-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:52:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [18.72.1.2] (helo=south-station-annex.mit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G845a-000342-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k71Nqj3P026557; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:52:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k71NqiAn009910; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:52:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd (SYDNEYPACIFIC-FOUR-SIXTY-SEVEN.MIT.EDU [18.95.6.212]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id k71NqhMI004201; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:52:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by cyd with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1G842U-0002ML-00; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:52:42 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:24:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 1.47 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57969 Archived-At: >> Another possibility is to leave sit-for as it is, try to find code >> that relies on sit-for returning due to process output, and fix it. > > Richard specifically asked [someone] to check all sit-for calls to see > if the new behaviour would break them. So [we] should already have > done this (but I don't think anybody actually did that). I did check, but maybe I missed something non-obvious. The strange behavior of Gnus reported by David Kastrup seems to indicate that some code somewhere is relying on some undocumented feature of sit-for.