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Re: User interaction from multiple threads
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: User interaction from multiple threads |
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Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:16:41 -0400 |
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> Undoubtedly that would often be true, but are all prompts written in
> such a specific fashion to guarantee they would be unambiguous within
> any arbitrary arrangement of asynchronous prompting activity? I would
> be very surprised if that turned out to be true. At minimum, few if
> any of the existing prompts (many of which may now be triggered in
> thread contexts), will have been written with this particular scenario
> in mind.
I think most prompts are written under the assumption that the user
knows which command perse just typed and therefore knows the context
fully. So far, that's normally so -- but it won't be so with threads
asking for input in parallel.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, (continued)
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- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Richard Stallman, 2018/08/23
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- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/24
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Phil Sainty, 2018/08/24
- Re: User interaction from multiple threads, Richard Stallman, 2018/08/24
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