Subject: Re: bug#1043: emacs does not compile when using uClibc

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:42:44 -0400

>     It looks safe enough.  But let's just note for the future that
>     PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT should die.

> That feature used to be important for making output preemption really
> work on remote logins.  Please do not get rid of it!

I do not understand:
1- PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT is not a feature, but an internal
   implementation trick.  Not sure what is the corresponding feature.
2- Why/how is it related to remote logins?
3- Why/how is it related to output preemption?

        Stefan