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Bug-report: `sleep-for' doesn't sleep for expected period, maybe after async process invocation. |
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Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:52:35 +0900 (JST) |
Hi, Emacs developers.
* Bug description
`sleep-for' ends too early, by not sleeping for the expected time. It's
speculated that it's caused by a termination of an asynchronous process. [1]
This bug does not always reproduce, but it often does.
[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14698081/elisp-sleep-for-doesnt-block-when-running-a-test-in-ert
* Environment
Gentoo Linux, Emacs-24.3 and 24.1.
Debian Linux, Emacs-23.2
MacOS X, too, according to a page. [1]
* Code to reproduce the bug
Do "emacs -q" and run the code below. It uses an external Unix command "sleep".
It has a line `(sleep-for 3)', but it *often* ends immediately. The last line
judges the result so that you don't need a timer watch to confirm.
As far as I tested, the bug shows 100%, but if the bug doesn't reproduce, well,
please try several times, or another environment. ;-) (With the original code
where I first met this problem, the bug occurrence rate exceeds 50%.)
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(let ((buf "*sleep-for test*")
(now (cadr (current-time))))
(start-process "test" buf "sleep" "0.1")
(sleep-for 3)
(message "This should be t: %s" (< now (- (cadr (current-time)) 3))))
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* Others
The following bug report may be related. Not sure.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6202
I think I can compile the bzr latest snapshot. (But it takes me 20 min. to
compile 24.3. :P)
Thank you very much. Best regards,
Teika (Teika kazura)
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Re: bug#20935: sleep-for wakes prematurely due to process output |
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Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:11:47 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:41:18 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Francis Litterio wrote:
>
> > On Windows, using the latest sources, function sleep-for is woken
> > prematurely by process (or network connection) output. I'm not sure if
> > this also happens on UNIX,
>
> Yes, it's the unaddressed http://debbugs.gnu.org/15990 .
Sorry, I completely forgot about that problem (it was still in my
queue).
Now fixed in commit 3bea77f.
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