GNU bug report logs - #21965
24.5; Emacs freezes when canceling at open file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Maneesh Yadav <maneeshkyadav <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.5

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: maneeshkyadav <at> gmail.com, 21965 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21965: 24.5; Emacs freezes when canceling at open file
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:39:46 -0800

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> No. And I'm not even convinced that's where we are blocked. It could be that
> this is part of a loop that Emacs is waiting in. To prove that we are
> blocked there, one needs to attach the debugger many times and see that the
> debugger finds Emacs at _exactly_ the same instruction. Or, after attaching,
> step Emacs and see that it cannot move even a single instructions.

Fair enough.  The docs for g_main_context_acquire do say that it should return
immediately, if no other thread is holding the lock.

John
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