GNU bug report logs - #51820
29.0.50; process_pending_signals is almost useless without SIGIO

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 51820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 51820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#51820: 29.0.50; process_pending_signals is almost useless
 without SIGIO
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:26:01 +0100
Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:

> It's hard to know whether it's been a problem.  Maybe emacs would be
> more responsive to C-g on Cygwin if we removed the #ifdef from
> handle_async_input. My preference would be to try that (on master of
> course) and see if anything breaks.

Also see bug#50043 -- there's other stuff that also doesn't work very
well without SIGIO.

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