Re: Timers and sentinels

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Uday S Reddy <address@hidden> writes:

> Whenever the "main" Emacs thread does an accept-process-output or
> sit-for, timer tasks can run.  I was also bitten by this issue a few
> times.  It is important that the timer tasks be short and refrain from
> changing any important state that might affect the main thread.

Hm.  Yes, nothing will be preempted unless they call sit-for or
accept-process-output or the like in the main thread, so it sounds
unlikely that a timer task will be preempted unless the same occurs.
Which it doesn't, so there must be a different kind of bug in the
code... 

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen