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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: zsh 5.0.6 hanged in freejob from TRAPCHLD
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:40:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141001164002.0f9b1e01@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28552.1412177133@thecus.kiddle.eu>

On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:25:33 +0200
Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Bart wrote:
> > This plus the possibility of interrupting the copy from the saved state
> > back to the globals is the need for queue_signals() inside lexrestore().
> 
> Eww. Wouldn't it perhaps be easier and better in the long run to replace
> this whole save/restore/globals concept with non-global structs and make
> all the lexer functions take a pointer to the relevant instance of the
> struct.

Better --- highly likely.

Easier --- only after you've persuaded someone else to do the work.
You'll soon find the paths you need to pass the structures through
proliferate somewhat hair-raisingly.  That may lead to useful
simplifications, though, so this isn't an argument against doing it.

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30 17:21 Vincent Lefevre
2014-09-30 23:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-10-01  0:53   ` PATCH signal-safe lexrestore() [Re: zsh 5.0.6 hanged in freejob from TRAPCHLD] Bart Schaefer
2014-10-01  9:00   ` zsh 5.0.6 hanged in freejob from TRAPCHLD Peter Stephenson
2014-10-01 14:53     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-10-01 15:25       ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-10-01 15:40         ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2014-10-01 16:04           ` Bart Schaefer

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