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Re: gnus makes emacs lose response
From: |
Leo |
Subject: |
Re: gnus makes emacs lose response |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:26:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 09/23/2006 19:18 +0100, Chong Yidong wrote:
> After some further communication with Leon, I think I know the
> problem: accept-process-output is called by the timer function
> `gnus-demon' (which is a valid but IIUC not commonly-used component of
> Gnus). However, as documented in the Lisp Reference manual:
>
> Emacs binds `inhibit-quit' to `t' before calling the timer
> function, because quitting out of many timer functions can leave
> things in an inconsistent state. This is normally unproblematical
> because most timer functions don't do a lot of work. Indeed, for a
> timer to call a function that takes substantial time to run is
> likely to be annoying.
>
> The result in this case is that this accept-process-output can't be
> interrupted, and Emacs can hang if the process doesn't reply (e.g., if
> the connection dies).
>
> I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. Anyone?
The ChangeLog says it's fixed. But I can't see the actually
fix. gnus-demon.el has not been changed for 7 month.
--
Leo
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, (continued)
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Chong Yidong, 2006/09/18
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/19
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Chong Yidong, 2006/09/19
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/22
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/23
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/22
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/23
- Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Stefan Monnier, 2006/09/18
Re: gnus makes emacs lose response, Chong Yidong, 2006/09/23