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28.0.50; USABLE_SIGOI undef code paths do not work correctly

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 50043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50043: 28.0.50; USABLE_SIGOI undef code paths do not work
 correctly
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:25:30 -0500

On 11/17/2021 2:41 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:
> 
>> Namely, whenever wait_reading_process_output is polling for input,
>> avoid getting stuck in select, something like this:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> +#ifndef USABLE_SIGIO
>> +         /* If we're polling for input, don't get stuck in select for
>> +            more than 25 msec. */
>> +         struct timespec short_timeout = make_timespec (0, 25000000);
>> +         if ((read_kbd || !NILP (wait_for_cell))
>> +             && timespec_cmp (short_timeout, timeout) < 0)
>> +           timeout = short_timeout;
>> +#endif
> 
> Sounds like a good general solution to me (but I guess this will also
> affect `accept-process-output'?  So it should probably be documented
> there).

I don't think it affects accept-process-output.  When the latter calls 
wait_reading_process_output, read_kbd == 0 and wait_for_cell == Qnil.

Ken

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