From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22273 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oliva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Loss of ticks and marks Date: 05 Apr 1999 18:24:24 -0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160224 28465 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20944 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:33:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB03287; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:29:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:29:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13452 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:29:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from grande.dcc.unicamp.br (grande.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.1.11]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20861 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.11]) by grande.dcc.unicamp.br (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA01722; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:24:26 -0300 (EST) Original-Received: from araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br (araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.14]) by amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA25223; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 18:24:27 -0300 (EST) Original-To: Justin Sheehy In-Reply-To: Justin Sheehy's message of "05 Apr 1999 11:28:18 -0400" Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22273 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22273 On Apr 5, 1999, Justin Sheehy wrote: > Alexandre Oliva writes: >> I thought code that must not be interrupted would be protected against >> C-g, so that I couldn't screw things up with the keyboard even if I >> wanted :-) > It's not code that _must_ not be interrupted, it is code that _should_ > not be interrupted. It's not a good idea in general, but could be > necessary in some cases. If you send a break signal, you should plan > on dealing with the consequences. But functions that may take a long time to run, such as entering a large group, should have well-defined interrupt points or be safe to interrupt, otherwise people may lose e-mail like I have :-( -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva IC-Unicamp, Brasil {oliva,Alexandre.Oliva}@dcc.unicamp.br aoliva@{acm.org,computer.org} oliva@{gnu.org,kaffe.org,{egcs,sourceware}.cygnus.com,samba.org} *** E-mail about software projects will be forwarded to mailing lists