GNU bug report logs - #5372
Calling url-retrieve-synchronously in a timer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>, 5372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5372: Calling url-retrieve-synchronously in a timer
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:02:56 -0500

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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.
>
> It's not expected (for me anyway), but I'm not completely
> surprised either.  Furthermore, it doesn't look like a good thing to
> do anyway: timer code should not run for an indefinite amount of time,
> so you should probably use url-retrieve instead.

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
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