Re: threads and kill-buffer

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 09/05/2012 12:36 AM, Tom Tromey wrote:

> Suppose thread T has buffer B as its current buffer, and then some other
> thread evaluates (kill-buffer B).  What should happen in thread T?

(assuming other thread is P) T should continue editing, but P marks B
as no longer available to set as current (so B can't be used as current
in another thread); when T switches from B to another buffer, B is really
killed.

> Another problem with this approach is just that it is hard to implement.
> I see 1085 references to 'current_buffer' in the tree, and presumably
> I'd have to examine each one...

Why not just define current_buffer to something like:

#define current_buffer current_thread ()->data->current_buffer

and see what happens?

Dmitry