Re: Hang in make check

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mär 30 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  noloader@gmail.com,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:14:18 +0200
>> 
>> On Mär 30 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> > Yes.  It's actually worse: _because_ the getchar call hangs, Emacs
>> > doesn't get to running the timer function at all.
>> >
>> > So I think the code needs to be modified, or maybe simply disabled
>> > when system-configuration-features includes neither DBUS nor NOTIFY
>> > nor THREADS.
>> 
>> Perhaps that getchar call should be removed altogether?
>
> How will keyboard input be received then in those configurations?

The same way as in all other configurations?  After all, the majority of
the emacs installations don't include that block of code anyway.

Andreas.

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