Re: buffering of process output

[Kim F. Storm]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
> It doesn't.  It's because there is no call to XFlush during the read loop
> in call-process.  See the comment in xterm.c:
>
> /* Remove calls to XFlush by defining XFlush to an empty replacement.
>    Calls to XFlush should be unnecessary because the X output buffer
>    is flushed automatically as needed by calls to XPending,
>    XNextEvent, or XWindowEvent according to the XFlush man page.
>    XTread_socket calls XPending.  Removing XFlush improves
>    performance.  */
>
> Thus redisplay_preserve_echo_area does not call XFlush any more.
>
> Andreas.

Thanks for the explanation.  I'll fix that.

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