From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: the state of the concurrency branch Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:41:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871u3js17r.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87r4biphpg.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382208081 21790 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2013 18:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gundaetiapo@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 19 20:41:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VXbSm-0000Q4-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 20:41:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXbSl-0007Qd-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:41:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXbSi-0007QX-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXbSh-000052-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXbSg-00004x-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXbSf-0004HX-PS; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:41:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r4biphpg.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:16:59 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164373 Archived-At: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. If there are multiple threads, the sleep may switch threads and cause the timer to run in a different dynamic environment. This suggests that a timer should be associated with a thread, and should run its callback in that thread. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.