GNU bug report logs - #32169
27.0.50; Wishlist: cleanup of thread-last-error

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Reported by: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:20:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 32169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 32169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32169: 27.0.50; Wishlist: cleanup of thread-last-error
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:34:17 +0300
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:18:48 +0200
> 
> 
> When a thread has died, `thread-last-error' reports the reason. But
> there is no possibility to cleanup this last error, which makes it
> inconvenient to check for errors in further threads. A function
> `cleanup-thread-last-error' or alike would be helpful.

How about having thread-last-error clear the error as a side effect,
perhaps when called with an optional argument?

(Btw, I'd rather we made error reporting in non-main threads much more
solid than what we have now.)




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