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Re: No thread yield when using synchronous processes?
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
Re: No thread yield when using synchronous processes? |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:47:32 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
Hi Philipp,
> it seems like Emacs doesn't yield when using synchronous processes:
>
> (make-thread (lambda () (call-process "sleep" nil nil nil "5s")))
>
> ⇒ Emacs freezes for 5 seconds.
>
> Is there a reason for this behavior? The manual claims that Emacs
> yields when waiting for process output, but that only seems to be the
> case for asynchronous processes.
The manual is clear about this: "when waiting for ... process output
(e.g., during ‘accept-process-output’)". `accept-process-output' is used
only for asynchronous processes.
> Thanks,
> Philipp
Best regards, Michael.