Re: Reading D-Bus messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:49:32 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <address@hidden>
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> >> Do you understand why gobble_input is called only if SIGIO is defined?
> >
> > Don't know. ChangeLog.1 says:
> >
> > 1986-01-23  Richard M. Stallman  (address@hidden)
> >
> >              * dispnew.c (Fsit_for):
> >              Call gobble_input only if SIGIO exists.
> >
> > 1985-11-01  Richard M. Stallman  (address@hidden)
> >
> >              * keyboard.c (gobble_input, input_available_signal,
> >                kbd_buffer_store_char):
> >                Make these functions exist only if SIGIO is defined.
> >
> > 1985-10-16  Richard M. Stallman  (address@hidden)
> >
> >              * keyboard.c:
> >              Get error instead of croaking if want to send SIGTSTP.
> >              Get compile time error in gobble_input if SIGIO is not
> >              defined.
> 
> Well, I'll just try it for a while and see if I notice any problems as a 
> result of using gobble_input without SIGIO.  If not, I'll upload a new 
> Cygwin test release and see what happens.

I'd rather turn the table and ask why is the call to
xd_read_queued_messages made in gobble_input and not elsewhere?  Why
are we mixing input from D-Bus with keyboard input?  And why in
gobble_input?