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27.0.50; C-g while a non-main thread is sitting crashes Emacs

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28630 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tom <at> tromey.com, agrambot <at> gmail.com, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#28630: 27.0.50; C-g while a non-main thread is sitting crashes Emacs
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:04:28 +0000

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> schrieb am Di., 3. Okt. 2017 um 18:37 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:22:56 +0000
> > Cc: dgutov <at> yandex.ru, 28630 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tom <at> tromey.com,
> >       agrambot <at> gmail.com
> >
> >  > Since no released version of Emacs has thread support, I'm not
> surprised that they aren't widely used
> >  yet.
> >
> >  Well, I am, because Reddit, for example, is full of people who say
> >  they use Emacs 26.
> >
> > I guess there's a huge selection bias at play. Most users typically use
> whatever version their OS distributor
> > provides, and that's often not even Emacs 25. Libraries tend to support
> 24.x as well, and therefore can't use
> > threads until they drop compatibility with both 24.x and 25.x.
>
> We are talking about developers, not users.  And newer versions can be
> supported by using the relevant version-comparison stuff.
>

Sure, but it's already a lot of work to use threads unconditionally, and
they are a feature that can't be easily polyfilled. So I can understand
that library developers are hesitant.

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