Re: alarm_signal_handler is called too frequently

[Jan D.]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     I can't say why the do_timer argument is different, the modification was made 
>     by you almost 2 years ago:
>
> Judging by the date when I made the change, I was probably looking at
> bug reports saved up from the previous months.  I didn't mail the
> patch to anyone at the time.
>
> Perhaps it has to do with y-or-n-p-with-timeout.
> Can that operate with a dialog?  If so, it now won't work
> correctly; the timeout will be ignored.  We could make
> the timeout work once again using some other mechanism,
> I guess.

y-or-n-p-with-timeout will pop up a dialog when invoked with the mouse (i.e. 
tool or menu bar).  And yes, it will not time out.  It never did for GTK or Mac 
OSX BTW, as they do not process timers if a dialog is popped up.

Currently there are no such menu or tool bar entries, but I guess other 
packages may add such an item.

But I was wondering if the differences in how dialogs and menus are invoked may 
make a difference.  A menu is invoked as a result of a KeyPress, which arrives 
in the signal handler.  But a dialog is always popped up by lisp code, not 
directly from the signal handler.  Does this matter?


        Jan D.