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

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Message #119 received at 17392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 17392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17392: 24.3.90; cursor blinks faster and faster
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 05:43:16 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 17392 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.

I thought about this, but (a) I don't see where the blink-cursor timer
removes any other timers, and (b) I don't see why this scenario would
be a problem that could lead to the issue in point in the first place.

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