GNU bug report logs - #12450
Remove configure's --without-sync-input option.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 12450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12450: Remove configure's --without-sync-input option.
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:40:18 +0300

> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:30:27 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, lekktu <at> gmail.com, 
>  12450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 09/16/2012 08:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> - The keyboard input or the X event causes a signal to be delivered.
> > Which signals are those, specifically?
> 
> SIGWINCH for window changes.
> 
> SIGIO, SIGINT and SIGQUIT for keyboard input, if interactive.
> But SIGIO is not used on platforms where it doesn't work.

Thanks, but what about X input events?

> And SIGQUIT is not caught on DOS_NT.

Because there's no SIGQUIT on Windows.  (And on DOS, keyboard
interrupts are disabled at startup, with the exception of Ctrl-BREAK.)
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