From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, 12450@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12450: Remove configure's --without-sync-input option.
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:12:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtxuz9ex2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5054551A.1070207@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:14:50 -0700")
>> If someone can describe in detail what SYNC_INPUT means
Maybe not quite, because it was implemented rather than designed.
But SYNC_INPUT's purpose is to reduce the code run during POSIX's signal
handling to its minimum (since it's basically unsafe to do anything in
there, due to POSIX's definition of signal handling), so it only sets
a global var (pending_signals) which is then polled by QUIT, so that the
real code reacting to the arrival of a signal is run synchronously.
This avoids problems such as malloc being called in the middle of
another malloc invocation.
The downside of SYNC_INPUT is that we may fail to poll pending_signals
often enough and hence become unresponsive. Since SYNC_INPUT has been
the default for a long while now, I think we can drop the non-SYNC_INPUT
case, indeed, as suggested by Paul. But I don't know how it interacts
with the non-X11 code.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-15 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-15 7:54 bug#12450: Remove configure's --without-sync-input option Paul Eggert
2012-09-15 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 10:14 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-15 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 19:59 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-15 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 7:47 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:17 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:34 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-09-16 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 16:30 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 19:55 ` Jan Djärv
2012-09-16 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 9:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-09-16 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-16 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-15 22:18 ` Richard Stallman
2012-09-16 3:15 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 8:23 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 21:48 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-17 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-21 20:50 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-22 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-22 9:34 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-22 9:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-22 10:01 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-16 9:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-09-16 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-16 10:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-09-17 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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