Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!ll-xn!culdev1!drw From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: ACCEPT-PROCESS-OUTPUT problem Message-ID: <1791@culdev1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:20:01 EST Article-I.D.: culdev1.1791 Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:20:01 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 05:30:26 EST Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA Lines: 18 I'm not sure, but in Gnu Emacs, I suspect that subprocess output filtering is done only when Emacs is waiting for keyboard input, or when the code executes accept-process-output, and that all queued output is processed before any more keyboard input is processed, or before accept-process-output returns. That is, I don't think filtering is done concurrently with execution of any other code. If I am right, the problems discussed in the original article never happen. Does anyone know for sure? Dale -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software ARPA: culdev1!drw@eddie.mit.edu UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!culdev1!drw If you get fed twice a day, how bad can life be?