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

[Jason Rumney]

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.