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From: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: MPS: Area scanners
Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 08:07:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m25xvqf94r.fsf@pro2.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y18myxq0.fsf@gmail.com> (Helmut Eller's message of "Tue, 07 May 2024 07:53:11 +0200")

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, May 06 2024, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested in others' opinions!
>
> The way I understand the doc is this:
>   a) Area scanners are called from a signal handler.
>   b) MPS is a stop-the-world design, i.e. all threads are stopped before
>      an area scanner is called.
>
> Because of a) the usual restrictions for signal handlers apply and
> because b) we have exclusive access.

Thanks! 



      reply	other threads:[~2024-05-07  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-06 17:12 MPS: Area scanners Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-06 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 18:46   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-06 18:28 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-07  5:53   ` Helmut Eller
2024-05-07  6:07     ` Gerd Möllmann [this message]

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