From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Timers and sentinels Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:56:20 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285502419 31720 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2010 12:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:00:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 26 14:00:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozpty-00019x-B5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:00:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57673 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ozptx-00025B-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49905 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ozpto-00024j-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozptl-0003DX-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55810) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozptl-0003DO-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozptk-00017O-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:00:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUvIiQdExwPBw7g3tdM PDolGR6ZhnIghtuyAAACZUlEQVQ4jbWTwa6jMAxFHSbMmnRI1631+gU8sQ6tyTp0yKyRyPP/f8LY oX27WY5ViSonvte5ARj+UfA/wMivoloQ/GpNbiFLJUsgf9qccgabV5qy6dqcLXGhCmQPTLOlkEyG xbIC0mUpIBsWb12GFAsVVVfSZliDc97PKQCHlcASBdkuoDeLU/lgORCZS22BNsFqss+poyWW9oSY gEg7AIK0ieTsYoEF8QYilSADzJ3JOpTnEkuAU4JQpwXjwCefV8vlMYyRE9i2ArFujYDIZddcZtn7 Au7PlF0feauBTVaPJ1MJWAVIB1XwpUriLR7OdAJWjgMPLGBeJAYF3eLbRcx5GAVsdnJOeyaXnE/O 2sgidQAxzzA7I1kZkswVDJudX+l2xslQLYUXkBgWzYQk3ezibOcKxq9FTmZlrEDmzD+HcSfeFcg+ 5xAFTPQY9vo2PIYSx+kNbKZ6sl0B82gUnFA8OioKROUhz7IomASk/vF+sTTETdd9EClnv0GUqLas ABR4K/IKPu0+cpXyT7lief46OjhIKjwd5hX8qOvFLh1zOcA1C/CHyYx46jnMCtytAp1m/7QN4hUS 1bG+Ae/bXlDqRovzrk8Kzmq8y2h3bJouTm52PYm5r0FJXOOGH88bbXIP8CEd8Tid/AreTlgvyH60 EEfZzBKHjIoXSQ/7ydm1hQfvPMd63QW7BhNeSN4AC7+5HGoKcoMSBy29Bei33Ku3fLRfCC1eGpQI wlMjOdfrYL7j3eO1wc51k3mfXJUavGe8Pb/BeXhbYLqfLoiN61c9efcCd8QL1nL+qrH7A5CGeMJ3 /QVR4uVUh4enJgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Issa's _With What Shall I Keep Warm?_: "Phoenix (For Teenagers)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GpXtEydG0gNkfOBThKgPo2HbSX0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130907 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: > Whenever the "main" Emacs thread does an accept-process-output or > sit-for, timer tasks can run. I was also bitten by this issue a few > times. It is important that the timer tasks be short and refrain from > changing any important state that might affect the main thread. Hm. Yes, nothing will be preempted unless they call sit-for or accept-process-output or the like in the main thread, so it sounds unlikely that a timer task will be preempted unless the same occurs. Which it doesn't, so there must be a different kind of bug in the code... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen