GNU bug report logs - #17392
24.3.90; cursor blinks faster and faster

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Message #113 received at 17392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 17392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17392: 24.3.90; cursor blinks faster and faster
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 16:22:45 -0400

> The code in keyboard.c is very simple: it copies the timers list, and
> then examines each timer in the copy in sequence, and invokes every
> timer that expired.  That is all.  Can you describe a scenario where
> the timer function thus invoked will not find its timer in the
> original list?  What could delete or modify the timer, and how?

How 'bout: the list contains two timers, we copy it, then run the first
which removes the second, then run the second which doesn't find itself
in the list.


        Stefan

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