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Re: timer handlers and ^G
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Ken Raeburn |
Subject: |
Re: timer handlers and ^G |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:21:36 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.107 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> This was discussed some time ago. Richard says that he found
> interrupting the timers very dangerous, because it could leave Emacs in
> an unstable state. The recommendation is for code that runs off timers
> to be written so that it cannot hang.
Okay, I wasn't sure how fragile other uses of timers might be.
> If the timer handler is written so that its author is _positive_ it can
> be interrupted, that code can enable quitting.
That's certainly good enough... as long as Gnus actually does (get
changed to). Until then, I can run my expires manually.
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, (continued)
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/23
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Francesco Potorti`, 2001/10/23
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/25
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/25
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/28
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/28
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/29
- Re: timer handlers and ^G, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/25
Re: timer handlers and ^G,
Ken Raeburn <=