Subject: bug#5372: Calling url-retrieve-synchronously in a timer

From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:54:21 +0800

Chong Yidong wrote:
>>> It looks like url-retrieve-synchronously is not finished when run in a
>>> timer.  Is that expected behaviour?
>>> It looks like it hangs in accept-process-output.
>>>       
>
> Could this be a manifestation of Bug#5359, "process-send-region hangs
> ntEmacs if region >64K"?
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5359
>   

url-retrieve-synchronously should not be using a subprocess, so unlikely.