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Re: sit-for
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: sit-for |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:52:42 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Another possibility is to leave sit-for as it is, try to find code
>> that relies on sit-for returning due to process output, and fix it.
>
> Richard specifically asked [someone] to check all sit-for calls to see
> if the new behaviour would break them. So [we] should already have
> done this (but I don't think anybody actually did that).
I did check, but maybe I missed something non-obvious. The strange
behavior of Gnus reported by David Kastrup seems to indicate that some
code somewhere is relying on some undocumented feature of sit-for.