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counterintuitive results with process-send-string

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Tiphaine Turpin <tiphaine.turpin <at> inria.fr>
Cc: 10815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10815: counterintuitive results with process-send-string
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:20 +0100

Tiphaine Turpin <tiphaine.turpin <at> inria.fr> writes:

> It seems that process-send-string,although it is blocking (until sent data
> is acknowledged), may allow execution of other code (which in this case
> calls process-send-string again). This seems to be allowed by its
> specification: "Output from processes can arrive in between bunches.",
> except that in my setting, I am almost sure than no input can be available
> at this moment, at least from this connection. In fact, the calls to
> process-send-string are initiated by after-modify hooks, originating from
> a single user command (which performs several modifications).

wait_reading_process_output can run timers.

Andreas.

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