bug#45117: 28.0.50; process-send-string mysteriously exiting non-locally when called from timer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  45117@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:37:59 -0500
> 
> But I had the impression that the original problem under discussion was
> not just due to the difficulty of writing code that handles "random
> aborts", but rather due to the fact that `while-no-input` sometimes caused
> undesired random aborts even when the user didn't hit any key.
> This would be a bug in `while-no-input` which we should investigate
> a fix (it's likely due to some "innocuous" event being received which
> `while-no-input` mistakes for user-input; could be an event linked to
> some kind of notification service like dbus, file-notifications, ...).

Let me remind you that we nowadays have while-no-input-ignore-events.