From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Mutual exclusion in Emacs
Date: 25 May 2004 09:47:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5u0y5uew4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vpqpt8tt2nb.fsf@ecrins.imag.fr
Matthieu Moy <MatthieuNOSPAM.Moy@imag.fr.invalid> writes:
> How is concurrency managed in Emacs? I know there's no threading
> support, but since you can launch several asynchronous processes, with
> process sentinels, is there a risk that a process sentinel preempt the
> non-process-sentinel code being executed, or another processes
> sentinel.
>
> If so, is there a way to guaranty mutual exclusion if all the process
> sentinels access a common ressource?
Is there anything wrong with the Elisp manual? I thought it was
explained pretty thoroughly just at what points of time sentinels may
get run.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2004-05-25 6:57 Mutual exclusion in Emacs Matthieu Moy
2004-05-25 7:47 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-05-25 21:44 ` Matthieu Moy
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