Subject: bug#17392: 24.3.90; cursor blinks faster and faster

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 21:44:47 +0300

> From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:25:40 +0200
> Cc: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> For me it was difficult to understand the division among threads.

There are no threads involved here, as both the C code which runs the
timers and the Lisp code run in the same single thread.

On top of that, Michael is working on GNU/Linux, so any w32 threads
aren't relevant.

> What could be done to make this easier is checking the return value of
> every single system call.

There are no system calls involved in the code in question.