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#15990
Bug-report: `sleep-for' doesn't sleep for expected period, maybe after async process invocation.
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Reported by: Teika Kazura <teika <at> gmx.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:56:08 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: confirmed
Merged with 20935
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Hi, Emacs developers.
* Bug description
`sleep-for' ends too early, by not sleeping for the expected time. It's speculated that it's caused by a termination of an asynchronous process. [1]
This bug does not always reproduce, but it often does.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14698081/elisp-sleep-for-doesnt-block-when-running-a-test-in-ert
* Environment
Gentoo Linux, Emacs-24.3 and 24.1.
Debian Linux, Emacs-23.2
MacOS X, too, according to a page. [1]
* Code to reproduce the bug
Do "emacs -q" and run the code below. It uses an external Unix command "sleep".
It has a line `(sleep-for 3)', but it *often* ends immediately. The last line judges the result so that you don't need a timer watch to confirm.
As far as I tested, the bug shows 100%, but if the bug doesn't reproduce, well, please try several times, or another environment. ;-) (With the original code where I first met this problem, the bug occurrence rate exceeds 50%.)
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(let ((buf "*sleep-for test*")
(now (cadr (current-time))))
(start-process "test" buf "sleep" "0.1")
(sleep-for 3)
(message "This should be t: %s" (< now (- (cadr (current-time)) 3))))
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* Others
The following bug report may be related. Not sure.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6202
I think I can compile the bzr latest snapshot. (But it takes me 20 min. to compile 24.3. :P)
Thank you very much. Best regards,
Teika (Teika kazura)
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 15 days ago.
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