GNU bug report logs - #27036
25.1; Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!!

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 12:21:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed

Found in version 25.1

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Message #43 received at 27036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 27036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27036: 25.1; Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit
 inhibited!!
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.
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