From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Timers and sentinels
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:24:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hbhc63ke.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1Ozr9a-0006Jq-SA@fencepost.gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Before you conclude that your initial guess was wrong, there's one
> more factor to consider: signals. When a subprocess exits, Emacs gets
> a SIGCHLD signal, which is an asynchronous event. There are also the
> SIGALRM signals caused by the hourglass-cursor feature. Not sure if
> this can explain the issue you are dealing with, but I though I'd
> mention it just in case.
Hm. What I'm seeing is that (possibly) the function being run from the
timer is interrupted by an image insertion, and the latter is being run
off of url-fetch, which, I guess, is a sentinel function. Which might
be triggered when the subprocess exits... Hm... but is that possible?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-26 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-25 13:49 Timers and sentinels Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-26 11:09 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-26 11:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-26 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-26 13:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-09-26 15:19 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-26 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-26 18:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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