Re: timer handlers and ^G

[Stefan Monnier]

> I found my Emacs session (built from a recent version on the 21.1
> branch, but not precisely the release) hanging this morning.  Gnus
> "demon" expiration of articles was running, the minibuffer says
> "expiring articles in nnimap+imap.mekinok.com:fsck.rt.announce..." and
> hitting ^G doesn't do anything.
> 
> (gdb) xbacktrace
> 0x81f8a00 "accept-process-output"
> 0x8793f50 "imap-wait-for-tag"
> 0x87d09e0 "imap-send-command-wait"
> 0x87947e4 "imap-mailbox-select-1"
> 0x85c3ff0 "imap-mailbox-select"
> 0x87e8f80 "nnimap-possibly-change-group"
> 0x87c1ad4 "nnimap-request-expire-articles"
> 0x852c434 "gnus-request-expire-articles"
> 0x84ebdfc "gnus-group-expire-articles-1"
> 0x8517820 "gnus-group-expire-articles"
> 0x850ed38 "gnus-group-expire-all-groups"
> 0x81f3b78 "byte-code"
> 0x84f4c38 "gnus-demon"
> 0x81f18e4 "apply"
> 0x81f3b78 "byte-code"
> 0x81ee614 "timer-event-handler"
> (gdb) p Vinhibit_quit 
> $8 = 405658444
> (gdb) p Qt
> $9 = 405658444
> (gdb) 

So now the question is.  Where in this stack of function calls
should inhibit-quit be bound to nil ?


        Stefan