Re: Threading IO-bound functions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:03:32 +0800
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
>  I think we need first to solve the above problem in some way. Or
>  change Gnus to not ask any questions from a background thread.
> 
> I think most questions are asked using ‘read-string’ or some variant like 
> ‘completing-read’, right? At the very
> least, I think that concurrent Emacs needs to make sure that the behaviour of 
> these functions are well-defined
> in the context of threading.

I asked for thoughts and ideas about this in bug#25214.  So far no
replies, which I find unfortunate and, frankly, surprising.

Thanks.