Subject: Re: bug#49682: 27.2.50; accept-process-output within accept-process-output hangs emacs

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 23:32:16 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> (let () (run-with-timer 0 nil #'url-retrieve "https://www.gnu.org/"
>> #'ignore) (diary-mail-entries))
>
> Don't do that, because it will hurt.  Mixing timers with subprocesses
> is asking for trouble.

That's not my experience, really -- url-queue.el is based around firing
off `url-retrieve' from timers, and I've never seen any problems.

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