Re: Reading D-Bus messages

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> D-Bus messages shall be handled as soon as they arrive.
>
> Why?  How is it different from input handled by
> wait_reading_process_output (via `select' etc.)?
>
> In any case, putting D-Bus messages into the keyboard buffer doesn't
> ensure they will be handled instantly, if lots of previous input is
> waiting in the queue.

I do not know too much how process output is handled.

D-Bus messages are handled as special events (like frame events or mouse
events) in `special-event-map'. It would be sufficient to handle them
similar.

Whether this is in gobble_input or somewhere else, I do not care.

Best regards, Michael.