From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70610 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!! [11 times] Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:48:58 +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 1283809761 18114 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2010 21:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18985@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 06 23:49:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsjZ2-0004GW-E5 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:49:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsjYw-0004rT-HK; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsjYv-0004rD-B4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OsjYr-00084O-3s for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OsjYq-0000GQ-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:49:08 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsjYq-0004Aw-22 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:49:08 +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 ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:49:08 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:49:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAIVBMVEXy6RPl2Q///wdgThr+ +wz79RL+/g7//wj//wvYxhb//wy2CYfNAAACb0lEQVQ4jVWUv4/aMBTHn+8uoHSKK7jWG1icIsYq E1vhqHphIvRS0U50AKlMV+skZ2ynppkSUVp56w1Flf/KPuc3T0hI/ujr79fPzwFfUUoZZZn5k1Ec a33a7XZb8GccywVrzvmXOE601rscjA0YMaZUKhHopALDNwimlCqlfge5oAJ8zgOl8KfUuYLzZaYo QUk2RY+4kGyB8tFSKZrlAEMl+xIM+T1/wKyEXN3jVkawL1Ixc4CM5udAQZIfAwFvSn7PQWk+q9dd KeMorgFtFG6EoPYYOc1W6N0o+KDXUrQOyPngeWkRFT3MU21MquEF58JYt0ARd7riQkqBivjfGeCE CyGNeUtR3JNjtsIDJm1zUxhayqgAra0kRuvJs1SVQsiHl7Lw2OcgKHsluPjWxUYlZaqt1XRXBl0U GHDCdbvuLoYid4kuxsoKaAVcE5YU4LQBZtVAuHH06JhZOFkb5pCWB6b62zdxD0foZCVwzV4y0n96 ePDDr801hTItAiGjRD91NCy37HpTAtMqEUU4ClPyPiTWcVsr0B63wmJgd4jjNObmpnA96JCMQD+A +cFraqGfnp2WGdAthdt6VSlv/RVTASiL2i2AFfaxVxsgR6Dgg6lDCoCuTmJauASWAUwH3oTfepOZ 7038tc4vCpzPNoLlO44BLi49L1vHxbvpfMoaoOzDZF3fLT6csW2vbKVmvn356k63Hucg/LDy0/Tt 6/CQratZyEFqi0EYinHqBR+TFhirn70b27r6kXpsYRT7EtwoX3GbqMhiapGPQvnJwIePb9N8ZNix HMNq4NxpF6/vcT4vAtVADF/kU9taRvAfeeWMT6qYSYAAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Figurine's _The Heartfelt_: "International Space Station II" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0mY8gn2QsIJt2AqaXi27p3qKIRc= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70610 gmane.emacs.devel:129731 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > It means just that: accept-process-output is called in a way that can > block (e.g. because some remote host doesn't respond) wit inhibit0quit > set to a non-nil value, which means that Emacs may end up frozen (with > no way to wake it up) for as long as the remote machine decides not > to answer. But all calls to `accept-process-output' in Gnus is called with a timeout parameter, so there's no way Emacs could totally lock up. I think. (It's typically called with a 0.1s or 0.01s timeout.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen