Subject: bug#27036: 25.1; Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!!

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 03:38:09 +0300

On 5/25/17 3:51 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> Looks like it's in timer-event-handler:
> 
> (defun timer-event-handler (timer)
>    ...
>    (let ((inhibit-quit t))

Oh. Thanks! Somehow I skipped over this also being implemented in Lisp.

So apparently timer functions are not allowed to signal quit.