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23.1; accept-process-output doesn't accept floating point for the seconds argument

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Yee Keat Phuah <ykphuah <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; accept-process-output doesn't accept floating point for the 
	seconds argument
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:36:04 +0800

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When I do (accept-process-output fooproc 0.1 0 1), I get the following error
(wrong-type-argument integerp 0.1)

According to the help page for accept-process-output:
[quote]
Non-nil second arg seconds and third arg millisec are number of seconds
and milliseconds to wait; return after that much time whether or not
there is any subprocess output.  If seconds is a floating point number,
it specifies a fractional number of seconds to wait.
The millisec argument is obsolete and should be avoided.
[/unquote]

The seconds argument should accept floating point, just as it does in
emacs-22.

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 of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON
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Message #10 received at 4027-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Yee Keat Phuah <ykphuah <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#4027: 23.1; accept-process-output doesn't accept floating point for the seconds argument
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:45:32 -0400

> When I do (accept-process-output fooproc 0.1 0 1), I get the following error
> (wrong-type-argument integerp 0.1)

Yes: if you use the obsolete and discouraged MILLISEC agument, then the
SECONDS argument needs to be an integer.


        Stefan

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