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

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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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Message #8 received at 5372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5372: Calling url-retrieve-synchronously in a timer
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:43:03 -0500

> 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.


        Stefan
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