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condition-wait considered harmful


From: Andreas Politz
Subject: condition-wait considered harmful
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:26:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Please consider  adding a  mandatory timeout  (see attached  patch) when
calling condition-wait in the main-thread.  As it currently is, any such
call may make Emacs freeze irrecoverably.  I hope no argument is needed,
why this is a bad thing.

Andreas

Attachment: cond_timedwait.patch
Description: condition_timedwait.patch


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